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...environment and is detrimental to plants and wildlife. Consequently, it must be asked: Is the high aluminum concentration in the brains of Alzheimer's victims the result of the disease? Or could the illness be caused by the high levels of aluminum and other elements in the soil and drinking water that are apparently a result of acid rain...
...department of corrections has charge of the island, though, and inmates bury the dead. In most instances, it is a case of the poor burying the poor, and over the course of decades there have been many former gravediggers who were laid to rest in the very soil they had once turned. And, as is always the way here, they did not go down into the earth alone, for burial in this field is like life in New York City: crowded. One goes to the grave in a gang, ten across, three deep, 148 bodies to the plot...
...received letters, purportedly from him, requesting asylum. Kept hidden away by the Soviets for more than a week while they and U.S. officials sparred over how to handle the matter, Andrei finally appeared at two small, hastily arranged news conferences, one at the Soviet embassy and one on American soil at Dulles International Airport. Minutes later, with a pair of U.S. Assistant Secretaries of State on hand to act on any lastminute change of heart, Andrei and his parents boarded a commercial jet en route to Moscow. Andrei's parting words: "Say hi to Mick Jagger...
...that forecast off kilter by at least 1 billion bu. The harsh weather arrived just as the corn was entering its crucial tasseling stage and kernels were starting to form. Now cornstalks are dying weeks ahead of schedule, as much of the farm belt's normally rich, brown soil is becoming increasingly yellow and cracked. Says Larry Quandt, who raises corn and soybeans in southern Illinois: "If the drought lasts any longer, it's going to be an extremely rough year...
...would have been militarily favorable for the West, since the potential targets of the Pershing II in the Soviet Union can be covered by longer-range strategic weapons based in the U.S. or on American submarines. If there were no political considerations in putting U.S. ballistic missiles on European soil, the sacrifice of the Pershing II, according to this view, might have been an acceptable price to pay for a 70% reduction in the SS-20 threat to Western Europe...