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...burning have a demonstrably negative effect on human health. It took a series of air pollution disasters, however, in Donora, Penn., and in London in the late 1940s and early 1950s before public opinion was aroused to a level requiring action. We learned later about the problems of acid rain and photochemical smog...
...monumental piffle on the campaign trail in Britain. The Conservative Party announced a major initiative to fight teenage binge drinking, which-given the much celebrated local custom-seemed as likely to succeed as a plan to oppose rain. Not to be outdone, Tony Blair's Labour Party announced an equally major initiative to meet the needs of a new, mythic electoral figure: the Schoolgate Mum, whose desires were said to include better school lunches, athletic activities and access to school nurses. This proved risible even to Labour Party stalwarts. "I thought we were going to call them Schoolgate Nans," said...
...We’re counting on that [rain] a little bit,” Walsh said...
...rain slacked off the day of the game, and the field sucked down the moisture with a Saharan-like thirst. In the parking lot, Odessans in recreational vehicles relished barbecue. In one, Stan Pulley, Marge Pulley, Claudeane Sublett, John Sublett, Mike Carter and Jan Jones addressed an inquisitor all at once, making it difficult to record who said what...
...rising water forced the National Park Service to close the Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln monuments, and K Street in historic Georgetown was awash, as a giant low-pressure system moved up the Atlantic Seaboard last week, unloading ten to twelve inches of rain into the James, Potomac and Roanoke river basins. But while Washington was getting its feet wet, parts of Virginia, West Virginia and Maryland were devastated...