Word: woodenness
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...which keeps the insects away--now seems to be leaching out. It's bad enough if decks, docks and maybe even a few picnic tables begin sweating arsenic, but the toxin was also widely used in children's playgrounds, where over the past couple of decades thousands of whimsical wooden forts and castles have been built on sites that once housed metal swings and cagelike jungle gyms...
Rick Feutz knows better than most the harm that arsenic can do. In 1986 the Washington State teacher was building a wooden raft for his children, a job that required a lot of sawing--and a lot of sawdust. Within days, he felt achy and nauseated and experienced a tingling in his hands. The problem persisted, and eventually doctors diagnosed arsenic poisoning. The price he has paid is high: he lost a third of his overall motor control, and, even today, his face remains partly paralyzed. "My eye droops; I have weakness in my arms and legs," he says...
...Dumping it in an unlined landfill allows arsenic to seep underground. Mulching it scatters CCA on the surface. And burning it fills the air with toxic smoke. Leaving the structures to disintegrate on their own could take a while. CCA is such an effective preservative that those pressure-treated wooden forts and castles might still be standing a generation from now. In retrospect, the old metal swings and jungle gyms are starting to look pretty good...
...squadron leader on the Akagi. Admiral Yamamoto stood on a wooden step in front of the officers on Nov. 17. He told us: "I know you have trained for a few months and are confident of your skills. But America is very strong. So tighten your belts. Devote yourselves to this fight...
...work's craft ancestry promotes a confidence in looking at it. Puryear's shapes come out of several parallel worlds of form, which, when prolonged, actually do meet. One is industrial--but "obsolete" industrial: the vigorous and noble shapes of what are now antique technologies, such as the carved wooden forms once created by casting patternmakers. Another is folk technology: basket weaving, canoe building, the construction of tents, yurts and kites. (Puryear had some conventional art-school training at Catholic University of America in Washington in the early '60s, but he also worked with African carpenters in a remote village...