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Morrow's memories draw the reader in from the start. "A heart attack feels like this," he writes. "A sickness suddenly surrounds the lungs, a sort of toxic interior glow--fleeting at first, lightly slithering, but returning a moment later, more insistent...Something dangerous has come inside and will not leave." As he lies in a coronary-care unit awaiting his bypass operation, Morrow begins to relate his own medical predicament to events in the outside world: "My mind went wandering about, working as a kind of journalist of memory and anger. I sought to connect my inner world...
...final arguments Clark urged the jurors to ignore "the sideshows." But when it came to the toxic racial elements of the case, there were no clear lines anymore between what was a distraction and what was essential to a fair judgment. It would be complicated enough if Simpson were just a wealthy and charming athlete accused of murdering his wife. But from the start there was more to it: he was black, his wife was white and the police department was the same one that brought the world the beating of Rodney King...
...suspenseful narrative full of intellectual surprises and bold-faced characters. Based on Harr's fly-on-the-wall reporting, A Civil Action (Random House; 500 pages; $25) chronicles a lawsuit brought in 1986 by eight families in Woburn, Massachusetts, against Beatrice Foods and W.R. Grace. The plaintiffs charged that toxic waste on properties owned by the giant corporations had infiltrated town drinking water and caused an outbreak of leukemia...
...Lovetta Pyle has struck a vein of woe. Shortly after moving to the town of Sutter Creek, she learned that the gray "sand" that whole neighborhoods sit on is actually mine tailings, the grit left over after gold has been extracted from the ground. In those tailings is a toxic byproduct of the mining process: arsenic, in concentrations up to 50 times higher than the level deemed safe by the government. Now Pyle finds that her house is virtually worthless; no one will buy it, and no bank will write a mortgage. "I feel trapped and stifled," says Pyle...
Thank you for your chilling depiction of environmental disaster in Siberia. As a student in Magadan, Siberia, I witnessed leaky oil refineries, toxic-waste dumps at the headwaters of rivers, scrapyards of twisted metal and swaths of clear-cut land: grim testimony to the failure of the Soviet system to care for Siberia's fragile ecosystem. Industrial society seems to lead inexorably to devastation of the earth's northern lands. On America's own arctic frontier, the U.S. Congress stands poised to allow oil exploration of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska, something a soon-to-be-released Interior...