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...just as in Riverside, history plays a major part in the battle in Watertown, as residents feel they are entitled to receive more from the land after investing $100 million of federal, state and local money to clean toxic waste from the property, allowing it to be developed into a home for Internet and consulting firms over the last several years...
...Welch has also come under fire recently for shirking GE's obligation to clean the upper Hudson River, the biggest toxic site on the Superfund list of the Environmental Protection Agency...
Recently I met with a group of working mothers who gather each month to talk about parenting issues. In the course of our discussion, it became clear that guilt hung over the group like a toxic cloud, even though the women came from different backgrounds, were at different points in their careers and had a different number of kids. Get a group of mothers together, and we will find plenty to feel guilty about. We get divorced, we forget to sign permission slips or to retrieve our kids on time on early-dismissal days, we can't afford piano lessons...
...your hardboiled fiction shelf. Both are set in the prime film-noir territory of sunny, sepulchral California: Los Angeles, home of Philip Marlowe (among other truth seekers) and moviemakers (among other chronic liars) for Mulholland Dr.; Santa Rosa (scene of Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt) for the toxic scent of small-town failure in The Man Who Wasn't There. Both films serve up a lovely, lurid brew of greed, murder and twisted identities. But the Coen movie, with Billy Bob Thornton and Frances McDormand locked in a jealous adagio, is twistily faithful to the noir formula. The Lynch...
Three Mile Island. Chernobyl. And don't forget The China Syndrome. With their long, notorious track records of burning money and spewing toxic waste, it's hard to imagine that nuclear power plants could ever again be hot properties. But in Vernon, Vt., some of the nation's largest energy companies are battling to gobble one up. The Vermont Yankee plant, a 28-year-old nuclear war-horse, has become the target of a bidding...