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...duplicated at hundreds of military installations around the country. Stick a shovel into the ground at the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground north of Baltimore, Maryland, and the soil begins to burn with phosphorous waste from decades of manufacturing military flares. A firing range the size of Manhattan at the Army's Jefferson Proving Ground in southeastern Indiana is littered with 1.5 million unexploded artillery shells; officials are torn between footing a $6 billion cleanup bill and simply padlocking the place and throwing away the key. In June a midnight blast equal to 4,700 lbs. of TNT rocked...
Juliana: And Thomas is from Queens. And I'm from Manhattan, and Greg is from North Carolina...
...ever think about going back to Manhattan...
Susan Karlin suffered a similar fate. The graphic designer, who has managed a profitable studio in Manhattan for seven years, needed more computers and a larger staff to accommodate her growing clientele. When she applied for a $100,000 loan at a large bank, she even agreed to put up $200,000 worth of personal property as collateral. She had no previous history of credit problems. A week later, a lending officer called her with the bad news: "We don't feel comfortable with it." Karlin was upset. "I gave them all the documentation they asked for," she said. "Still...
Boston is four hours from Manhattan--too far for West both physically and spiritually...