Word: brine
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...absence of official help, the survivors launched a relief effort of their own. From the air, the", could be seen building new huts and frying brine-soaked rice. In the past, many islanders have dreamed of building sea walls, but such vast undertakings have always been put aside as impracticable. "We can control the flood," said Pakistan's President Agha Mohammed Yahya Khan last week, "but what can we do against the cyclone? We can only pray to Allah for mercy...
...Justice Department to prosecute ten companies accused of polluting the waters of seven states. Investigators found that the worst offenders were paper companies that either used mercury to prevent the formation of slime in the production of paper, or chemical companies using mercury cells to separate chlorine from brine solutions...
...thanks to Ruth Brine and to TIME for having the courage and compassion to expose and explore such a desolate and critical corner of our society...
...between "unhealthy" and "unsatisfactory." SO2 levels hit .23 parts per million parts of air at some points around the city, compared with the federal emissions standard of .1 ppm. Result: many New Yorkers complained of smarting eyes and sore throats. "New York is like a pickle in its own brine," wheezed a bedraggled typist. A secretary put it another way: "When I came to work, I felt like I should take out my whole respiratory system and wash it." But strangely enough, neither hospitals nor doctors reported unusual numbers of patients. The favorite prescription: "Get out of town...
Written by Contributing Editor Ruth Brine, and reported by both Ruth and Correspondent Ruth Mehrtens Galvin, the story was edited by Senior Editor Robert Shnayerson and researched by Virginia Adams. The idea was conceived when Ruth Brine moved to Manhattan's Upper West Side last fall. "I saw those rows and rows of motionless old people sitting all day long on the benches on the smelly traffic island that stretches all the way up Broadway," she recalls. "I also began to be aware that my friends were spending as much time discussing what to do about their parents...