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Some residents dismiss their neighbors' fears as overblown. While arsenic can be a fast-acting killer, the form found in gold-bearing ore is far less potent than the fabled poison and remains inert until it comes into contact with air or water. And few researchers have studied--much less established--possible links between long-term exposure to gold-mine tailings and damage to human health. "It's all debatable," says Dan Ziarkowski, an expert on hazardous materials for the state Environmental Protection Agency. True, chronic exposure to arsenic has been connected to cancer and kidney disease. But, Ziarkowski says...
...emotions of the players inside Ito's courtroom were only slightly less inflamed. Although disappointed that Ito would allow the jury to sample just two morsels from the Fuhrman tapes, the defense roared back with a potent parade of witnesses. Kathleen Bell, who claims she met Fuhrman at a Marine recruiting station in the mid-1980s, testified that he said, "If I had my way, all the niggers would be gathered together and burned." Natalie Singer, who met Fuhrman and his partner in a hospital emergency room, said he told her, "The only good nigger is a dead nigger." Roderic...
...confrontations between these people--among them, an angry mom and a tough housing cop--and Strike's clockers (so called because pushers work around the clock) are some of the film's most potent and haunting scenes. Indeed, it's almost as if the director has taken his cue from them instead of the other way around. For there is a force and focus in Lee's work, an absence of intellectual posturing and a willingness to let his material speak for itself that he has not achieved before...
...teams that are trying to wrest the title away, Dartmouth and Penn have the best shots along with Harvard. Dartmouth's only graduate was first-team All-Ivy goaltender Lauren Demski, and the Big Green return back Cynthia Roberts and potent scoring threat Allison Pell. However, the team must still cope with the tragic July suicide of captain-elect Sarah Devens...
...company with authority over his previous holdings and may be more. Time War ner would get Turner's globe-straddling cable prop erties--CNN and the Cartoon Network, plus three other channels-along with two movie companies, New Line Cinema and Castle Rock, and sports properties that include the potent Atlanta Braves...