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Like most rural areas, Long Island's Suffolk County has no major sewer system and, except in the largest towns, cannot afford to build one in the near future. Because Suffolk's 1,200,000 residents depend on backyard cesspools and septic tanks, household wastes that do not break down in natureespecially detergentseventually seep into the underground water supply. As a result, more and more drinking water flows out of the tap with a smelly foam that tastes awful and perhaps affects human health...
...accusing various companies of polluting. One night the Fox decided to plug the chimney of an Aurora aluminum processing plant. He nearly fell through the factory roof, which he claims had been rotted by corrosive fumes. He hit the company once more, by crawling into the plant's septic tank and plugging the inlet...
More important, sheer barbarism is presented in anti-septic and absurdly euphemistic language. This is clearest in Huntington's discussion of the "urban-rural gap" in Vietnam. He notes with pride the steps that have been made toward urbanization: "The U. S., however, has been bridging the gap through two means: (a) inducing substantial migration of people from the countryside to the cities and (b) promoting economic development in rural areas and marketing and transportation links-between them and the cities...
Industrial or private development of riverways often necessitates the filling-in of adjacent wetlands, she explained, which can lessen the river's depth and lead to greater chances of flood. "During floods, of course septic tanks and chemical pollutants become part of the river," she said...
MIDNIGHT COWBOY. Jon Voight is a strutting phallus, good for nothin' but lovin'; Dustin Hoffman is a septic, crippled thief. Together, they create one of the most moving and poignant performances in the history of American film. Though Director John Schlesinger has decorated the story with stylistic tics, the film stands as a moving study of the lonely and the loveless...