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concentrated over there, in an increasingly thick and crammed vortex, as when a magnet hidden under a sheet of paper attracts iron filings, making patterns that become darker one moment, lighter the next, and in the end dissolve and leave on the white page a speckling of scattered fragments...
...hurtling mass of earth and debris came to rest in a ravine at the bottom of the hill, entombing its victims in a mound of muck 40 ft. to 60 ft. thick. It is still unclear how many residents of Mameyes caught in the slide's path survived the fall, but those who did escaped soon after the disaster struck. Unlike the havoc wrought by last month's earthquake in Mexico, the mud slide left no lifesaving pockets of air to sustain the trapped...
...prime example of a modern disposal facility is the one operated by Waste Management, Inc., at its C.I.D. Hazardous Waste landfill in Chicago. A giant excavation 35 ft. deep covers two acres. A floor of compacted clay approximately 40 ft. thick has been laid below the bottom of the hole. On top of this virtually impermeable bed, workmen are placing a plastic liner to be topped by a plastic-grid system that will collect and direct any seepage into a series of sump pumps. Above the grid will be another plastic liner, another layer of clay and yet more plastic...
...coating on the streets has become the paradigm for life in Times Beach. They remember, now, all the dead birds around town, and the stillborn kittens and puppies. Michael Reid, 19, remembers that he and other children loved to bicycle behind the dioxin truck, skidding and sliding in the thick oil slick. Joe's wife Penny Capstick remembers falling down in it. They all remember the children tracking it in. "I can remember Jeri Lynn as a child sitting by the road just kicking her feet in the stuff," says Marilyn Leistner, who lives near by. "Just kicking and kicking...
...fact, the earth seems to be reclaiming this abused chunk for its own purposes. The maples and sycamores look healthy, grasses and wild flowers are thick and high. Grasshoppers hiss. A flock of wild turkeys has moved in, as well as a pack of coyotes and some deer. "It's amazing," says the former mayor, "all these yellow flowers! They were never here before." The wild growth, however, poses a problem: vandals, looters and arsonists can hide from the security patrols more easily. But that may be remedied. "I believe the state of Missouri," says Leistner, "is looking into defoliating...