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Next stop, Ruston. Sam was once president of the First National Bank here. He knew the crowd. The candidate, perspiring so you could see through his shirt, was comparing Louisiana to the train: "Rich in history, rich in heritage, not as shiny as it used to be, but able to get back on track." An elderly man of the soil sidled over to us and inquired, "Do you think he believes all that horse manure?" Back on the train, even the tap water came out smoking...
...jargon of management science: proactive modes, assessment of capabilities, lethal-type substances impacting on the environment, mass- casualty situations. Of course, those in the catastrophe business have a better excuse than most for their tendency toward euphemism. "I have found," said the Rev. Fred Page, a Presbyterian minister from Ruston, La., "that using the word morgue with someone who has just lost a loved one may not be best...
...Ruston...
Kellogg, Idaho, and El Paso. (Children are metabolically more susceptible to lead poisoning than adults.) Elevated lead levels can also be found in people who live near freeways, where auto exhausts pollute the air. High arsenic levels have been detected in children living near a copper smelter in Ruston, Wash. High levels of lead and other heavy metals, such as arsenic and mercury, are potentially lethal. Mercury poisoning, caused by industrial dumping of toxic compounds into a harbor, killed an estimated 300 people in the area around Minamata, Japan, and crippled almost 1,000 more...
MICHAEL HITCHENS Ruston...