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...year. But about 20% of the U.S.'s fresh water flows through the myriad cavities and pores of limestone karst, often traveling 1 km (0.6 mile) overnight, taking unpredictable turns and sometimes bubbling up to the surface through a spring. Containment of a toxic spill in such terrain is virtually impossible. Even ordinary garbage that is dumped in a sinkhole can contaminate groundwater miles away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Subterranean Secrets | 11/30/1992 | See Source »

...Choose and spill your drinks judiciously. By choosing a domestic wine, you clearly emphasize your priorities while cunningly revealing your awareness of current trade issues...

Author: By Lorraine Lezama, | Title: Tips for the Socially Challenged | 11/25/1992 | See Source »

...remarkably long time in an industry where employee turnover often reaches 100% a year. She earns only $6.10 an hour. "To work here you need a weak mind and a strong back," she says with a smile. The pace at the Simmons plant is so frantic that chickens sometimes spill onto the floor, where they lie for as long as an hour. "Sometimes there's a real pile-up," says Grover Myers, a federal inspector at the plant since 1959. "I just wish the plant supervisors had their own initiative, without inspectors telling them to pick up the chicken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arkansas Pecking Order | 10/26/1992 | See Source »

Epps said he was concerned that tensions withinthe guard unit could spill over into the communityas a whole...

Author: By Joe Mathews, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Guard Describes Racial Incidents | 10/20/1992 | See Source »

...without. Trustees say privately that they will probably devote some of the settlement to habitat protection and scientific studies but bank most of it in an endowment. A preliminary plan could be released early next year. But given the competing claims and heated emotions, it, like the Exxon Valdez spill itself, will almost certainly leave in its wake a residue of anger and disappointment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Alaska's Billion-Dollar Quandary | 9/28/1992 | See Source »

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