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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once groundwater is contaminated, it is hard to clean up. In 1,345 shallow wells sampled by the U.S. Geological Survey, about 15% exceeded drinking-water standards for nitrate (a nitrogen compound), which at high levels can lead to the potentially fatal "blue baby" syndrome in infants. Many suspect aquifers were in California, the Great Plains and the Mid-Atlantic region. Pesticides have shown up in more than half of shallow wells the USGS studied in agricultural and urban areas. "Is it right that people in rural communities should have to buy bottled water?" Seacrest asks. "What kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fresh Water: SUSAN SEACREST: Are the Wells Poisoned? | 8/2/1999 | See Source »

Lecturer on Social Psychology Henry Wechsler based his conclusions on about 15,000 undergraduates' responses to a survey, which asked the students about their drinking habits and frequency of reckless behavior caused by drunkenness...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, | Title: Drinkers Likely to Own Handguns | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

...results, published this month, show that 6.8 percent of students who said they had driven under the influence or vandalized property while drink own handguns. And of students who said they needed a drink "first thing in the morning," 12.4 percent own a gun, according to the survey...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, | Title: Drinkers Likely to Own Handguns | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

Lecturer on Social Psychology Henry Wechsler based his conclusions on about 15,000 undergraduates' responses to a survey, which asked the students about their drinking habits and frequency of reckless behavior caused by drunkenness...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Studies in Brief | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

...results, published this month, show that 6.8 percent of students who said they had driven under the influence or vandalized property while drunk own handguns. And of students who said they needed a drink "first thing in the morning," 12.4 percent own a gun, according to the survey...

Author: By Jonelle M. Lonergan, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Studies in Brief | 7/23/1999 | See Source »

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