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...grand jury won't buy a plea bargain on toxic dumping...
...important environmental battle seemed to be lost, a catastrophe imminent. "We were terribly disappointed that the ship broke apart before we could salvage the oil," says Sian Pullen, a marine-conservatio n officer with the World Wide Fund for Nature. "This is a horrible disaster: a toxic cloud of chemicals is spreading through the water." At first the area around Fitful Head was fouled by the oil. Birds such as the shag and the great northern diver became coated with crude and died. Whipped up by the 90-m.p.h. winds, an oily mist spread over the southern...
...year, compared with maybe 2% in the 1950s. "Is this an indication that pollutants have weakened human immune defenses, leaving city dwellers more vulnerable to otherwise benign diseases?" the epidemiologist asks. Many of the effects of environmental degradation are far from benign. In Upper Silesia, Poland, indiscriminate dumping of toxic wastes has so poisoned the land and water that 10% of the region's newborns have birth defects, from missing limbs to brain damage...
Roll out the red carpet and get ready for the made-for-TV movie: Science magazine has created a new celebrity by naming nitric oxide its Molecule of the Year for 1992. The citation notes that only a decade ago NO was considered "just another toxic molecule." But how far it's come! Scientists now know that in small amounts NO is crucial to human physiology. It plays a key role in digestion, blood-pressure regulation, the immune system, the nervous system and a long list of organs. It's even essential for men's erections. Maybe that TV movie...
...besieged fortresses now. Wiesel has come to try to project a little of his luminous sanity and decency in the war zone, to hold everyone to a higher standard and possibly to make some of the killers ashamed of what they are doing. In an ornate ceremonial room painted toxic green, Wiesel, wonder rabbi out of Auschwitz, sits side by side with Izetbegovic, whom the nationalist Serbs see as the spearhead of a fundamentalist Muslim state, the nightmare of Islamic conquest drifting up out of the 14th century from the Battle of Kosovo, which locked the Serbs into 500 years...