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...storybook Niagara Falls housewife, baking homemade bread, keeping a spotless kitchen and raising her family in the neighborhood known locally as Love Canal. But in 1978 Lois Gibbs' life took an abrupt turn. That was when she became convinced that the toxic goo seeping from an abandoned chemical- waste dump three blocks from her home was making her children -- and those of her neighbors -- sick. Stymied by stonewalling corporate and government bureaucrats, she summoned strengths and talents she did not know she had. Over a period of two years, Gibbs knocked on doors, passed out petitions, gave speeches, hounded public...
...poll some 80% of Americans said they would support more strenuous environmental efforts regardless of cost. But better measures of the nation's sense of urgency about preserving the planet are the stories of people like Lynda Draper, 40, whose fight against ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbon emissions began in the kitchen of her Ellicott City, Md., home early last year. "I was basically a PTA volunteer," says Draper, until the day a General Electric repairman came to install a new compressor in her refrigerator. He asked her to open the window, and then she heard the whooshing sound of CFCs venting...
From a huge caldron on the kitchen stove in a London flat wafts the comforting aroma of classic chicken soup, enough to feed a hungry orchestra. From a small upright piano in the living room wafts a bittersweet trickle of melody, enough to feed a hungry spirit. Michael Tilson Thomas, the 45-year-old principal conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, is cooking on both burners...
...Hall's Great Hall would be converted to a new first-year dining hall, freeing the Harvard Union for use as a multimillion dollar Center for the Humanities. Student groups currently in the Memorial Hall basement will be relocated out of the building, which will also house a central kitchen, a performance space and several "leased grills" or eating areas...
With cinematic flourish, Dino De Laurentiis would jump up from his plate of spaghetti at the boardroom table, wave his cook aside and bolt into the company's kitchen. Nobody, he told his guests, could make cappuccino like the maestro himself! As he spoke, Hollywood's flashiest independent producer would secretly hit the "start" button on an ordinary cappuccino machine. He would then present his charmed visitors with cupfuls of "Dino's special cappuccino -- the best...