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...tons of pollutants from a nearby sludge plant, a steel mill, a paint company, a huge incinerator and an 80-ft.-high landfill. Only a few miles away is a lot that should be a playground. Instead it is a dump filled with 4-ft.-high mounds of trash, broken glass, rusty nails and construction debris...
After 11 weeks of meetings between the President and Congress, the essential ingredients of a deficit-cutting plan have not even been discussed. -- Congress takes a knife to the Pentagon's shopping list. -- America's poor are tired of living with other people's trash. Now they're fighting back...
Louis Slesin's stories have a tendency to shock. Like the one about the 23 workers at the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Me., who got "sunburns" one rainy day when someone on a Navy frigate flicked on the ship's radar. Or the trash fires that start spontaneously from time to time near the radio and TV broadcast antennas in downtown Honolulu. Or the pristine suburb of Vernon, N.J., that has both one of the world's highest concentrations of satellite transmitting stations and a persistent -- and unexplained -- cluster of Down's syndrome cases...
...food may be microwaved mediocrity. In the aging coaches, the decor runs to implausible orange and tepid yellows, the odor is museum quality. A $274 sleeping compartment on Amtrak's Cardinal, from Chicago to New York, manages ingeniously -- and torturously -- to cram sink, toilet, passenger seat, closet, water cooler, trash can, storage compartment and shoe locker into a space about...
...each year's operating budget. They take it so seriously, in fact, that the Corporation, also known as the President and Fellows, is best known by students for the cloak of secrecy that enshrouds it. The Corporation publishes no minutes of its biweekly meetings, it shreds all its trash, and several of its members, all of whom have lifetime appointments, never speak to the press...