Word: dumps
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Going into the race, there were doubts about Harvard's capabilities since top runners John Murphy and Eric Schuler were out with injuries and Logan had missed the training camp. But impressive performances from middle-distance-runners-turned-harriers Dixon and Lamppa and freshman Rippy helped the Crimson dump the Huskies' depleted ranks...
...TIME correspondents who visited dozens of toxic dumps and waste sites across the country to get material for this week's cover, the story entailed some eerie hazards. "If you are reporting a riot and get hit with a bottle," says New York Bureau Chief Peter Stoler, a veteran of the science and environment beat, "you either come home well or you don't. But with hazardous waste, you become acutely aware of every sneeze, every rash. You wonder about being well 20 years from now." Chatting with fire fighters near a blazing Elizabeth, N.J., dump site...
Most often, though, TIME reporters and photographers were better, though bulkily, equipped. They sweated inside disposable vinyl body suits and bootees and hard hats. Wearing a respirator was a new experience for Chicago-based Correspondent Madeleine Nash, who went to dump sites in six states. Says she: "Breathing through those things is hard labor And even with one, sharp fumes cut through to create a slight burning in your throat." Mandatory rubber gloves made reporters' notes look more like toddlers' scrawls...
After two years of investigation, the New York Public Interest Research Group, Inc., a respected private organization, charges that 66 companies dump nearly 10 million gal. of contaminated waste water each day into eleven municipal sewerage systems on Long Island. Since none of these systems can treat toxic wastes, claims the report, the drinking water for some 3 million residents is "in danger of deteriorating into a severely contaminated industrial sewer...
...lovely wooded area of New Jersey known as the Pine Barrens, more than 100 wells have been poisoned by chemicals leaching from the 135-acre Jackson Township dump. James McCarthy, who had drunk well water for ten years, had one kidney removed in 1977, and now has trouble with the other. Tara, his daughter, died in 1975 of a kidney cancer when she was nine months old. A 16-year-old neighbor lost a kidney to cancer; another neighbor is on dialysis for kidney problems; a third also has a kidney ailment. No scientific link has been established between...