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Harvard research facilities may be forced to curtail their use of certain chemicals if a proposed toxic waste bill is approved by the Massachusetts state legislature...

Author: By Neil A. Cooper, | Title: Proposed Waste Bill May Affect Harvard | 11/24/1987 | See Source »

...repairman from New York's Long Island Lighting Co. was trying to fix a faulty home-heating system when he found a mysterious oily sludge in the natural-gas pipe connected to the house. LILCO soon learned that the substance contained dangerous concentrations of PCBs, a class of highly toxic industrial chemicals. That startling discovery in 1981 eventually led the Environmental Protection Agency to launch a major investigation of Texas Eastern, the Houston-based firm that supplied the gas to LILCO. Last week, in the largest settlement of an EPA case in history, Texas Eastern (1986 revenues: $4.1 billion) agreed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mopping Up the PCB Mess | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...mess. In 1979 Congress banned the production, sale and distribution of PCBs. Companies were permitted to keep using equipment that already contained the chemicals, as long as the machinery was carefully sealed. As the equipment wears out, owners must deposit it at federally approved toxic-waste disposal sites...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mopping Up the PCB Mess | 11/23/1987 | See Source »

...great-looking horror movie Near Dark, an Oklahoma farm lad falls for an alluring blond from parts unknown. She seems interested in him, so why won't she give him a little love bite? Because, as he realizes too late, he will end up with the world's most toxic hickey. His dream girl is a vampire, and abstinence is the only sure precaution against infection. It takes several harrowing nights with her rambunctious vampire pals, who kidnap his kid sister, before he can escape from the Land of the Undead. Near Dark has filmmaking finesse to spare, but puts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Killer! Fatal Attraction strikes gold as a parable of sexual guilt | 11/16/1987 | See Source »

Last month, Emerson signed a preliminary agreement with the United Shoe Machinery Corp., owners of the Beverly site. But because the site may contain toxic waste, the school informed the company this week that Emerson is no longer interested in relocating there, Harold said...

Author: By Garth R. Wiens, | Title: Emerson Decides on Lawrence, Again | 11/14/1987 | See Source »

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