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...result, the poisons have turned up in surprising places. Not far from home plate at New York City's Shea Stadium, a festering pond containing PCB, toluene, benzene and DDT turns red, blue or green as the mixture of the waste changes. The mess is so flammable that the pool has caught fire twice in the past year. In the marshes around New Jersey's Meadowlands sports complex, home of the pro football Giants, some 200 tons of mercury residues have contaminated Berry's Creek, causing Selikoff to declare, "On a bad day, breathing in the Meadowlands...
...three years to get them here," wailed Mari Barnum, Ohio firm bureau manager. "If we run into weather problems after the strike is over, the whole thing goes down the drain." Some feature films have already been canceled. The only ones now shooting are those, like On Golden Pond and Ragtime, whose producers agreed beforehand to whatever terms are negotiated...
...Faculty discussion: "Re-examining Thoreau's Premises," with Joel Porte. Come now, you didn't really read Walden over the summer, did you? Worth a look, even if you didn't. You'll want to go to Walden Pond at some point...
Indeed, only 100 miles to the southwest of Jin Ma, in one of the province's many hilly regions, the picture is far different. On the remote Long Chi (Dragon's Pond) commune, perched on the lower slopes of 9,000-ft-high Mount Emei, the soil is rocky and dry. Farming is confined to low-yielding terraces that have been carved out of the hills and planted primarily with corn. Peasant incomes are one-third of those on the wealthy Jin Ma commune; they average $44 a year, more than half of which is distributed in grain...
...loss. Arkansas dairy farmers reported milk production drops of about 20% because of the heat. And despite George Gershwin's famous song, this summertime the fish are not jumping. Jim Malone of Lonoke, Ark., said that 1.3 million gal. of water evaporated daily from his pond once the temperature hit 100°. He had to pay $5,000 to pump in fresh water to keep the catfish alive...