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Small concentrations of a toxic chemical were found in a Harvard graduate student housing complex, officials announced Wednesday, though they said that levels were not high enough to raise immediate health concerns...
...rebirth is no surprise to Joseph Kahn, who directed Spears in her greatest video triumphs over the years (including "Toxic" and "Stronger"). He knew there had been projects that just plain fell through during what he calls "the blackout period," but still, Kahn jumped at the chance to direct the singer in her comeback video "Womanizer" in late...
...earlier this year. Users of the micro-blogging site might now consider overlaying their avatars with a film of sludge brown as a mark of their spontaneous, collective action to help undermine an attempt by the international oil trader Trafigura to gag a British newspaper's reporting on a toxic-dumping case...
...Trafigura's legal representatives, the London-based law firm Carter-Ruck, had obtained a secret injunction in September to prevent the Guardian from revealing the existence of a report commissioned by the oil trader about the alleged 2006 dumping of toxic waste off the Ivory Coast by a ship chartered by the company. The lawyers then tried to stop the Guardian from telling its readers about a written question lodged in Parliament this week by Paul Farrelly, a Labour MP. His question mentioned both the secret injunction and the report. (Read "Bobby on the Tweet: British Police Try Twitter...
...from @iannutt, helpfully directing her to an earlier Guardian story that detailed Trafigura's involvement in what the newspaper described as "one of the worst pollution disasters of recent history" and the company's offer of compensation to 31,000 Africans who claimed to have been injured by the toxic waste. (See the best social-networking applications...