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While Berger sings the praises of "resource restorers," his account of environmental problems is neither glib nor blindly optimistic. His desciption of the clean-up of the devastated site of a Hooker Chemical Company plant in Michgan tempers hope for restoring a savaged ecosystem with a realistic sense of what...

Author: By John Ross, | Title: Saving the World From Itself | 12/3/1985 | See Source »

The Hooker clean-up was "state-of-the-art," but soon after the vault was sealed more contaminated soil was found and studies discovered that the extensive purge-well system was recovering only half of the polluted groundwater. Hooker was unwilling to spend more on clean-up and the state...

Author: By John Ross, | Title: Saving the World From Itself | 12/3/1985 | See Source »

Game-related pranks have often involved paint - especially blue paint sprayed onto John Harvard. In 1963, a group of Yale students decided that attacking the statue was not enough, and they proceeded to paint a huge "Beat Harvard" across the pillars of Widener Library. The clean-up cost $1000, while...

Author: By Inigo L. Garcia, | Title: Harvard vs. Yale vs. The Blob? | 11/22/1985 | See Source »

For legislators, the clean-up of Boston Harbor will be a major task, costing as much as $2 billion and taking five years to complete. But the building ban imperils some $2.3 billion in new construction in the city of Boston alone. "If the legislature doesn't act, there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Boston Horror | 12/10/1984 | See Source »

...Clean-Up Crew ...

Author: By Barbara H. Dobris, | Title: Holyoke Employees Break Out in Rash | 12/1/1984 | See Source »

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