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...impersonators seem to love their work. Suzanne McGohey of Dumfries, Va., was a schoolteacher until she started impersonating a hooker at Hogan's Alley. Given the alias Wanda Lust, she swaddles herself in a mink coat and pearls that the FBI seized in a drug raid. Says she: "Where else can you act like a sleaze and get paid for it? It enables you to be deviant in a healthy...
...that New York State paid for her home, she packed her children and her belongings into a U-Haul and headed for Washington and a career as a professional lobbyist. Today she runs the Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes, a consulting service based in Arlington, Va., for communities in Love Canal-like situations. "The only way to make change is to do it on the local level and move up," says Gibbs, 38. Two of her biggest battles at the moment: protecting some 250 members of the mining community of Kellogg, Idaho, where lead has been leaching from...
...astonishing rate. In 1984, 250 names were on the list of community groups regularly in contact with the National Toxics Campaign, a Boston-based organization that offers technical assistance to homegrown environmentalists. That list now has 1,200 names. The Citizens Clearinghouse for Hazardous Wastes, in Arlington, Va., which four years ago was helping 1,700 local groups fight contamination problems, is now in touch with about...
...rare coins from the California goldfields were lost in 1857, when the steamship Central America sank in a hurricane off the Carolinas. Now this lost treasure, confirmed 18 months ago and worth up to $1 billion today, is in the eye of another hurricane, this time in a Norfolk, Va., courtroom...
Tufts requires its fraternities to sign an annual statement promising that they will conduct a "dry" rush and purchase a certain amount of insurance. Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., is reinstituting live-in house directors -- adults who will supervise meals, serve as counselors and ensure that students do not abuse the property. Dozens of other schools are imposing restrictions on alcohol use and enforcing rigorous antihazing policies...