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...stillness is the neighborhood's proximity to something called the Brio Superfund site, a place that once housed two waste-disposal plants and now contains a witches' brew of toxic effluviums. Southbend's wells have been polluted by such chemicals as chloroform and xylene, while a black, oozing tar has bubbled upward into driveways and garages. Residents say air contaminants, such as trichloroethane, have been responsible for personal tragedies. Among them has been a rash of birth defects: in one four-month period, 11 deformed children were born; other children suffered serious heart and reproductive-organ problems. Most...
...irony only gets stickier, as if Meyer was given pine tar for his glove, and his pitches got worse. Sporting the top graduate school of business administration in the country. Harvard cannot even manage its own finances. (An anology with the second-to-last place Oakland A's bloated payroll and its spoiled children, comes to mind.) It has brought to life in the HMC a mutant of one of Crichton's dinosaurs: a Moneysaurus-Rex. In place of the don't-play-God-with-nature message of Jurassic Park, we get a don't-play-ball-with-the-Harvard...
...Medicare patients of all income levels for lab tests and the use of nursing homes. To put that number in perspective, Clinton proposes to raise $21 billion by reducing the Social Security exclusion from the income tax -- only for incomes over $32,000 a couple -- and the Republicans tar that as an unbearable burden on the elderly. And how about this half-a-billion dollar cut I see in prison construction? Doesn't bother me. But doesn't it bother them...
...Tar Heels' Cooper Pulliam beat Crimson freshman Howard...
With the victory clinched for the Tar Heels, officials suspended Burroughs and Stovell's doubles contest against David Caldwell and Brint Morrow...