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...past, ground water was kept pure because the soil at the earth's surface could be counted on to act as a filtration system, a kind of geological "kidney" that would scrub out bacteria and other insoluble contaminants placed on or in the ground before they could seep down to the water table, the ground water's upper limit. But this filtration system does not reliably screen out the waste chemicals cropland now leach into the soil from a variety of sources, including cropland that has been sprayed with pesticides, and industrial dumps like the pools into which...
There are no frills, a bootcamp approach shared with the Navy's Alcohol Rehabilitation Service in Long Beach, Calif., which has treated Betty Ford and Billy Carter. Residents at Long Beach make beds and scrub toilets, but at MARRinc they are also expected to shop for groceries, cook and tend the yard. There are no live-in housekeepers. Says Ann Martin, the Atlanta Junior League's representative on MARRinc's executive board: "A number of interim care facilities have somebody to do everything for you but attend the therapy groups...
Thai forces reacted swiftly to the Vietnamese assault. Ground units swept the invaded area with automatic weapons fire, while helicopter gunships strafed Vietnamese sighted in scrub land outside the camps. After the Vietnamese shot down a Thai chopper and observation plane, the Thais moved in heavy reinforcements of tanks and armored cars to the front. TIME Hong Kong Bureau Chief Marsh Clark visited the scene while the fighting was still going on. "Thousands of refugees were fleeing down the road," he reported, "and many others squatted in the water of the overflowing rice paddies, the picture of abject misery...
...show, but decided, as it has done on other occasions, to follow it with a discussion of the film's veracity by a panel of experts. At week's end only six of the 141 PBS stations originally slated to run the show had decided to scrub...
...these beasts annually. They are especially useful in cancer research because they will not reject a tumor transplant like other laboratory animals. Unfortunately, they will not reject any other diseases either, and so they must be raised in a totally germ-free environment; researchers have to scrub down and wear face masks before entering the breeding lab. Because the care is expensive, the bare rodent sells for $12, vs. 70? for Charles River's regular furry off-the-shelf mouse...