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...Masry, head of the law firm in which she serves as research director, Brockovich charges that fumes from active oil wells under the campus of Beverly Hills High School have caused inordinate levels of cancer and other disorders among the school's graduates. In June, the firm brought suit on behalf of 21 of those graduates against the oil companies that have, in succession, owned and operated the wells since the 1970s. Last week they also announced legal action against the city and the school district. Suits are still pending on behalf of additional graduates with different kinds of cancers...
...Beverly Hills cancer scare erupted in February, after Brockovich's firm alerted the local CBS-TV affiliate that she'd soon be filing suit. The resulting two-part TV series caused widespread concern, if not panic, among Beverly Hills high school students, parents and graduates. Six hundred people attended a meeting hosted by Brockovich at the posh Beverly Hills Hotel to recruit potential litigants, who were asked to fill out questionnaires to document their illnesses. Armed with these data, Brockovich charged that emissions of benzene, toluene n-hexane and other substances on the high school campus have caused 300 cases...
...home? At unclaimedbaggage.com the website for a 31-year-old store in Scottsboro, Ala., you can buy orphan luggage and cargo at a fraction of the original cost. The site has sold a wide variety of lost goods, including cell-phone accessories, a 75-carat aquamarine, even a suit of armor. "We often say that if these bags could talk, what a story they'd tell," says Bryan Owens, Unclaimed Baggage's CEO. How does the company get its hands on these goods? Airlines pay settlements to passengers whose bags they can't find after 90 days. Unclaimed Baggage steps...
...place where 15-story glaciers regularly shed apartment-size chunks into the ocean, I was glad of this sanctuary. I gingerly asked Kathy, the expedition's kayaking instructor, how long I would survive in the near-freezing water if I fell in without wearing a wet suit. "About six minutes or so," she said...
...them back time and again to the great, blinding white south. It is also utterly contagious, for after a few days of this heartbreakingly beautiful landscape, pure light and incredibly clear water, no one is immune. Taking in the ethereal magnificence from the relative protection of my kayak (wet suit carefully donned), I felt like I had left the earth for some other planet. This is the celestial payoff awaiting all travelers' efforts and expense...