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...owned by Grace and Beatrice contaminated the wells by knowingly dumping wastes into soil that leached into an underground aquifer. The two companies, said Attorney Jan Schlichtmann, "knew what they were doing could hurt people but . . . chose to do it anyway." The wells, closed in 1979, were found to contain five toxic chemicals, among them trichloroethylene, or a cleaning solvent that Schlichtmann contends causes cancer, a point vigorously denied by the defense...
...dumpsters, snooze on store stoops. Their beer cans and assorted flotsam dot the lush green parks. They are Santa Barbara's homeless, perhaps 2,000 displaced people in a population of 75,000. The city's mostly retired, wealthy, conservative Establishment, although resigned to their presence, is determined to contain their numbers in the prosperous town just 29 miles from Ronald Reagan's Rancho del Cielo...
Beginning in about twelve months, new U.S. paper currency will contain a thin polyester stripe bearing the legend USA ONE for $1 bills, USA FIVE for $5 bills, and so on. Called a security thread, the stripe is transparent and will not reflect light. Thus it cannot be reproduced by a photocopier. Around the portraits on the new bills will be letters too tiny for copy machines to pick up that say UNITED STATES OF AMERICA...
...many offices, drugs are as easy to obtain as paper clips from the stock room. Some dealers provide messenger services to deliver cocaine and marijuana right to their customers' desks. In other cases, users send unwitting company messengers on "business" errands to pick up packages that actually contain narcotics...
...government of President Hosni Mubarak was not seriously damaged by the ordeal. But with the country's economy a shambles, any new government austerity measures could provoke another explosion of rioting by the urban poor that not even the disciplined and professional Egyptian army would be able to contain...