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What goes down the drain eventually bubbles up in rivers and streams, according to a U.S. Geological Survey report on 140 waterways in 30 states. The stuff comes from farms and factories, as well as toilets, sinks and medicine chests. Environmentalists fear that even trace amounts of some pollutants might increase resistance to antibiotics, disrupt reproductive cycles or act as carcinogens. But in most cases, scientists don't know enough about exposure to contaminants at minute quantities to say what dangers, if any, they pose. Among the 95 chemicals tracked...
Because she analyzes Woolf strictly on the basis of her own writings, Dalsimer must assume that Woolf’s account of her own feelings is always trustworthy. As a result, Dalsimer’s attempt to trace the psychological development that led Woolf from her childhood to, ultimately, her suicide is limited by Woolf’s own self-image and by her selective expressions of emotion. But Dalsimer’s skillful organization of Woolf’s expansive body of work and intelligent analysis of Woolf’s literature gives us a thoughtful, nuanced picture...
Horowitz’s counter-arguments to reparations are similarly ludicrous. Present- day companies, especially in the insurance industry, have admitted to being direct beneficiaries of “cotton money.” There are Americans who can trace their ancestry back to slave-owners, and some even take pride in this fact...
...pushing in recent weeks for more academic offerings in areas such as Latino studies, Native American Studies and Asian American Studies. These groups cast their efforts to expand Harvard’s academic offerings as a long-overdue measure in a nation increasingly composed of people who do not trace their families back to Europe...
...While the environmental and health impacts are hard to trace to specific pollutants, some effects are strikingly clear. The wells in and around Guiyu have gone bad. Locals consistently described the water as undrinkable, even after being boiled. A restaurant owner tells of a nearby village where residents drank the local water. "Their teeth have gone all black," she says. "They can't be brushed clean...