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...Plain old dirt and fill proved to be the biggest headache. For 100 years, the area was a dumping ground for ash and cinder containing cancer-causing substances called PAHs, or polynuclear aromatic hydrocarbons (think of the charred stuff left on your barbecue grill). In all, Victory developers moved 750,000 cu. yds. of dirt, with nearly half so hopelessly "dirty" that it was carted away in 15,000 huge truckloads. Because previous landowners like Union Pacific were paying some of the cleanup costs, accountants had to track each spadeful...
...military wives in your article depicted as victims? These young Army wives, despite their age, are adults and are making choices for themselves. To have multiple children on an income under $1,000 a month is just plain foolish. The Rand report may be offensive in its characterization of military wives, but it sure sounds accurate. ANDREW HERLAN Los Angeles...
Sometimes being a megarich hyperpower is just plain lonely. Especially when the entire rest of the world is wrong. And recently that seems to be happening to the U.S. a lot. Below is a list of the global compacts that will have to try to survive without America's John Hancock...
...entertainment industries are especially acute during a summer in which the American box office tries to squeeze profits from such gems as The Mummy Returns and The Animal. (Rob Schneider, your game’s up. Either you have long realized that your movies just plain suck, or you actually do have animal parts where human organs should...
...however, Israel is on the highest alert for more terror attacks. There are plain-clothes police crawling all over Jerusalem. One of the reasons that they carried out this attack, they say, was that Israeli intelligence had learned that this particular network was preparing seven suicide attacks, at least. So they decided to strike first and also in retaliation for several attempted car bombs...