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...tractors. His estranged wife and her mother slouch around their dreary house staring at TV. Brad Jr. (Sean Penn) is searching for something worth spending his teenage energy on: maybe his lay-about friends, maybe that cute 16-year-old he's just met (Mary Stuart Masterson), maybe the toxic dream of emulating his old man. You've got to act, Brad. So be a thief and impress your friends. Join your dad's gang; make him proud. Buy your girlfriend a necklace and watch her eyes pop. Be a man and try not to look back at that trail...
...August, the Labor Department's Occupational Safety and Health Administration began to investigate Union Carbide, after a leak of the toxic chemical Aldicarb at the company's Institute, W. Va., plant left 141 people hospitalized. Last week OSHA levied a $1.4 million fine against the Danbury, Conn.-based firm for "willful disregard for health and safety" at the Institute plant. It was the largest penalty imposed by OSHA in its 16-year history...
...disease. He lived next door to the Zonas. In all, 19 cases of leukemia, five of them fatal so far, were reported between 1969 and 1983 within six blocks of the Anderson house in what became known as Woburn's "leukemia cluster." The purported source of the problem: toxic industrial solvents in two wells that served the neighborhood. Who dumped the contaminants and whether the pollutants led to the deaths are the subjects of a lawsuit against W.R. Grace and Beatrice Foods being tried last week in U.S. district court in Boston...
...Grace and Beatrice contaminated the wells by knowingly dumping wastes into soil that leached into an underground aquifer. The two companies, said Attorney Jan Schlichtmann, "knew what they were doing could hurt people but . . . chose to do it anyway." The wells, closed in 1979, were found to contain five toxic chemicals, among them trichloroethylene, or a cleaning solvent that Schlichtmann contends causes cancer, a point vigorously denied by the defense...
Although the complex trial will call on dozens of expert witnesses and last up to eight months, it will be watched closely elsewhere in the country where residents face contamination of belowground drinking water from toxic wastes. Throughout the nation, decades of careless disposal of industrial wastes have resulted in water that is unsafe to drink...