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Union Carbide's Institute facility, one of many plants that dot West Virginia's "Chemical Valley," has been a source of public concern for almost a year. Its output includes methyl isocyanate (MIC), the gas that killed 2,500 people and injured 200,000 when it leaked from a Union Carbide unit in Bhopal, India, last December. After that horror, the manufacturer shut down Institute's MIC unit for five months and spent $5 million improving its safety and production equipment...
...when the industry is facing increased competition from producers such as Saudi Arabia and Mexico and could lead U.S. companies in the future to build plants abroad. In South Charleston last Saturday, about 500 people marched in support of Union Carbide. Yet most residents of West Virginia's Chemical Valley were caught between worries about their safety and about their region's economy. "There's a real dichotomy," said Russell Wehrle, chairman of the National Institute for Chemical Studies, a valley citizens group formed after the Bhopal tragedy. "People are saying they want the jobs, but they also want more...
...stranger coming upon the gorgeous green mountains soaring over the Tug Fork Valley of West Virginia near the Kentucky border would not, at first glance, suspect that a combat zone was at hand. Yet for more than a century, bloody civil strife has roiled the region embraced by Mingo County, W. Va., and Pike County, Ky. There in the late 1800s, the Hatfield and McCoy families began a feud so lethal and long that it became legend. Then in 1920 the early struggles of the region's coal miners to unionize exploded into a fray that left nine people dead...
...picture Washington, New York City and the Silicon Valley rolled into one, a city that has hosted the best-ever Olympics, managed severe water and land shortages and built 11 new suburbs, five subway lines and miles of highways, all while preserving its unique history without exhausting its finances, then maybe you can begin to imagine what it's like to be Huang Yan. It's her job to create that city out of present-day Beijing. As Deputy Head of the city's Urban Planning Commission and a key player in preparations for the 2008 Olympics, Huang is taking...
...another step at dispelling the Big Brother scare. Although only a few RHIOs are operating, some 500 locally controlled information networks are being built, and the Clinton-Frist bill would put money on the table to help get more of them up and running. In New York's Hudson Valley, the Taconic Health Information Network and Community serves 600,000 patients along with area doctors, hospitals, labs, pharmacies, insurers, employers and consumers. If a resident makes an emergency-room visit on a Saturday, the ER doc can pull the patient's records from his personal physician...