Word: section
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...from the infamous Love Canal, you can follow your nose to Forest Glen, a trailer-park settlement built on heaps of foul- smelling hazardous waste that the Environmental Protection Agency says may contain as many as 150 toxic compounds. Under the streets of the densely populated semi-industrial section of Greenpoint, in Brooklyn, N.Y., the Mobil Corp. has begun recovering a sea of oil -- 17 million gals. -- that for decades has been leaking from underground storage tanks and pipelines...
Last month senior editor Jack White took charge of our NATION section, and I want to tell you about him. First, he's a journalist who has spent 20 years covering business, the South, Africa, the Third World, the Midwest and presidential politics. Second, Jack is the kind of editor who reaches beyond each week's staple news and probes the quieter truths of this country with sensitivity and tenacity...
...instance, this week NATION tells you about "Dumping on the Poor," how many of the country's poorest citizens are relegated to living in environmental wastelands. And Jack is quickly defining the focus of his section. "Our job is to address the two biggest issues facing the U.S.: how America redefines its role in the post-cold war world, and how we will deal with a host of unsolved domestic problems, from the growth of the urban underclass to rebuilding the infrastructure," says White...
...outgoing NATION editor, Terry Zintl, is enduring a crash course in Italian to prepare for a change of scene as Rome bureau chief. During his five years in the section, Zintl brought an expansive outlook to the job, which White says will continue. "The mood and tone of the U.S. is set as much outside Washington as inside," says Zintl. "We tried to find out what our leaders were saying but also what Americans were doing." From his Rome base, he will have the even more expansive task of finding out how the people of three ancient cultures -- Italy, Greece...
...South of the late 20th century, segregation by law has been destroyed, and segregation in fact is no more peculiar to Jackson, Miss., than it is to Jackson, Mich. On the other side of the coin, there is more school integration in the South than in any other section. Racism remains, but the nation now understands that race is the American dilemma...