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But Ray, a former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, should really not have been surprised by the NRC's seeming indifference. As she must know only too well, waste disposal is one of those problems that nobody in Washington wants responsibility for. A variety of inter agency reports and...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Wasting Away | 11/6/1979 | See Source »

Our escort from the Royal Hong Kong Immigration Office is impeccably British and always looking for the shadiest spot in which to stand. It is about 90 degrees and the humidity is hovering around 90 per cent. The stench at the dockyard "processing center" is beyond imagination. More than 850...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Waiting for a Home | 9/24/1979 | See Source »

PCBs have been repeatedly discovered in mothers' milk, as well as in the pasteurized milk and dairy products you buy packaged in the supermarket. Pesticides, too, have been found on your grocery shelves. In 1974, for instance, the Food and Drug Administration found the carcinogenic pesticide dieldrin in 85 per...

Author: By Leonard H. Shen, | Title: ...Another Man's Poison | 9/21/1979 | See Source »

About two dozen people strolled past a quartet of toothless old men outside Cothern's General Store in Riddleton to meet Gore inside the combination grocery store-post office-lending library. Bill Cothern, 30, the store's proprietor, protested the inflation. "How is the common man going to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: What's on the Voter's Mind | 8/27/1979 | See Source »

Parts of the underground economy are highly visible. Most big cities are aswarm with street hawkers, who sell from boxes and truck tailgates an astonishing variety of jewelry, clothes, toiletries, fruits vegetables and assorted schlock. Some of the stuff is "hot"; last year about $2 billion in merchandise and food...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Take Cash and Skip the Tax | 8/20/1979 | See Source »

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