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...here in the northeast corner of the state is punctured with 480 open mine shafts and 30,000 drill holes. Little League fields have been built over an immense underground cavity that could collapse at any time. Acid mine waste flushes into drinking wells. When the water rises in Tar Creek, which runs through the site, a neon-orange scum oozes onto the roadside. Wild onions, a regional delicacy tossed into scrambled eggs, are saturated with cadmium--which may explain, local doctors say, why three different kidney dialysis centers have opened here to serve a population of only...
...Tar Creek is a case in point. Two decades after it was targeted on the very first Superfund priority list, the 40-sq.-mi. site is worse off than ever. Early on, the government confined its effort to the polluted creek, without looking at chat piles, soil, air quality or the danger of subsidence. Was it a lack of knowledge of the danger, as EPA claims? Or industry influence, as environmentalists charge? Whatever the reason, federal attorneys settled with mining companies for pennies on the dollar. Now, after fruitless efforts to contain 28 billion gal. of acid mine water, contamination...
...losses of Chu and Nguyen marked déjà vu all over again for the Crimson. In the previous day’s semifinals against UNC, the squad had also faced a 3-3 knot. But unlike the Tar Heel contest, in which Riddell staged a remarkable three-set comeback to clinch a 4-3 Harvard victory, Sunday’s match against the Rams proved just out or reach...
...used to lose the closer matches,” said captain David Lingman after Saturday’s gripping match against the Tar Heels, “and we’re finally winning them...
...Tar Heels had either won or led in four singles matches—close enough to smell a team victory...