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Melville injects these environs with a superstitious aura. Frequently, it is explicit--a fake phantom in "I Do Not Take Take Messages from Dead People," or the black magic of an obeah man in "The Conversion of Millicent Vernon." More often, she only hints at spectral shadows--voodoo, zombies and the occult in general--to supply that uniquely West Indian flavor...
Occasionally pieces are populated with completely superfluous characters. They neither advance the plot nor contribute significantly to the atmosphere. The cast of "The Conversion of Millicent Vernon," for example, could have been halved without materially harming the story...
Environmental groups still fear that even minute amounts of dioxin, which was an ingredient in the Vietnam-era defoliant Agent Orange, can cause epidemics of cancer. But Vernon Houk, the federal official who recommended the Times Beach evacuation, is no longer sure. Recent studies suggest that the chemical may not be so dangerous. In an interview with the St. Louis Post- Dispatch, Houk declared, "We should have been more up front with the Times Beach people and told them, 'We're doing our best with the estimates of the risk, but we may be wrong.' I think we never added...
Zillions, based in Mount Vernon, N.Y., started life in 1980 as a less ambitious magazine called Penny Power but was revamped and renamed last year. Says editor Charlotte Baecher, a onetime high school English teacher: "We realized that the magazine could be doing a lot more." She expanded reviews, advice columns and increased the number of products being tested. The magazine, she says, tells kids, "Look, we know what's going on in your world. We know you've got zillions of pressures, and we're going to help you sort them...