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...past two weeks, I’ve spent the majority of my evening commute home stuck in traffic. Each day, the 20-minute drive down the stretch of the West Side Highway separating my house in the Bronx from midtown Manhattan turns into an hour-and-a-half of slow moving frustration...
...window coverings in 30 manufacturing facilities in 13 states, Canada and Mexico. Its brand names and licenses--including Wamsutta, Springmaid, Ultrasuede, Kate Spade and NASCAR--produce annual revenues of $3 billion. Springs is proof positive that U.S. textile manufacturing is very much alive. But it would be a stretch to say it's well. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. lost more than 800,000 textile jobs from 1994 to 2004-- about 350,000 of them since 2001--and 18 domestic textile plants have been closed this year. That figure includes four Springs facilities in South Carolina...
...dirtiest facilities, in some cases without adding new pollution controls (a federal appeals court last month upheld the revised regulations). GE is currently challenging enforcement provisions of the Superfund law, also via Tribe. The company bears at least partial responsibility for 87 Superfund sites around the country--a stretch of the Hudson River being the most famous--a legacy of its industrial past. If GE wins its case, the Superfund law would be gutted, contends Kit Kennedy, a lawyer with the Natural Resources Defense Council. GE, she says, would have "infinite opportunities for legal tangles and delays before a cleanup...
...mile stretch in Kansas on Route 4, from Geneseo to Shields, about 40 miles south of Interstate 70 is a veritable death valley. In town after town, schools have been boarded up, and the only preserved building is the American Legion post. These parts have so emptied that a turtle crossing the street has a decent shot at getting to the other side uninterrupted. Entire city blocks sell for $100 at sheriff's auctions, only to be abandoned, tax delinquent and on the block again a few years later...
...costs of new parenthood--stretch marks, lost sleep, depleted funds--the most traumatic is to one's ears. You spend years curating a hip CD collection, then--wham!--your life becomes a death march down the Barney highway. Here are half a dozen kids' albums you'll be proud to blast out your minivan windows...