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Niagara Falls' nightmare goes back to 1942, when the Hooker Chemicals & Plastics Corp. began dumping wastes in Love Canal. Thousands of chemical-filled drums were dumped directly into the receding waters of the unused canal or buried in the mud along its banks. In 1953 Hooker sold the site, which covered 16 acres, to the Niagara Falls board of education...
Many snatches of American vernacular rise out of an implied belief in the mystical properties of names. To say that someone's "name is mud" is figuratively to eradicate the owner. An American speaking of the crux or essence of any pursuit will probably say "That's the name of the game." Obviously, James Russell Lowell was onto something when he wrote that "there is more force in names than most men dream...
...height of the two-year Western drought, youngsters skateboarded on the dry concrete bed of the Los Angeles River. Shasta Lake receded to less than one-fourth its normal size, stranding boats on the rocky bottom. Folsom Lake, usually 260 ft. deep, was a virtual mud flat. The normally roaring Stanislaus River near Sacramento turned into a trickle. Kent reservoir serving Marin County dropped by more than a third of its usual level. Warned Richard Felch of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration: "We've got a good chance of another dust bowl...
...Shasta Lake, along with crowds of campers. Some 20,000 people spent Fourth of July weekend there; 40,000 were at Folsom Lake. Says William Dillinger of the state department of parks and recreation: "Nobody is crying for customers any more. Last year people were hiking on the mud flats along the lakes. This year they are swimming...
...feared he might give up secrets about clandestine intelligence operations. He decided to try to kill himself by running headfirst at the blood-spattered torture room wall. Then a guard hit him and sent him flying at the wall, where he saw KEEP THE FAITH, BABY scratched in the mud and blood. Soon after that, his captors began demanding antiwar statements rather than military secrets...