Lake Effect: Two Sisters and a Town's Toxic LegacyIsland Press, 18 mar 2010 - 208 páginas On her deathbed, Sue asked her sister for one thing: to write about the connection between the industrial pollution in their hometown and the rare cancer that was killing her. Fulfilling that promise has been Nancy Nichols’ mission for more than a decade. Lake Effect is the story of her investigation. It reaches back to their childhood in Waukegan, Illinois, an industrial town on Lake Michigan once known for good factory jobs and great fishing. Now Waukegan is famous for its Superfund sites: as one resident put it, asbestos to the north, PCBs to the south. Drawing on her experience as a journalist, Nichols interviewed dozens of scientists, doctors, and environmentalists to determine if these pollutants could have played a role in her sister’s death. While researching Sue’s cancer, she discovered her own: a vicious though treatable form of pancreatic cancer. Doctors and even family urged her to forget causes and concentrate on cures, but Nichols knew that it was relentless questioning that had led to her diagnosis. And that it is questioning—by government as well as individuals—that could save other lives. Lake Effect challenges us to ask why. It is the fulfillment of a sister’s promise. And it is a call to stop the pollution that is endangering the health of all our families. |
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... factories and the town's water processing plant. If you were facing the lake when the sun rose, our town beach looked like a picture postcard; but at sunset the string of factories cast long shadows over the bandstand, the snack shop ...
... factories and the town's water processing plant. If you were facing the lake when the sun rose, our town beach looked like a picture postcard; but at sunset the string of factories cast long shadows over the bandstand, the snack shop ...
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... to establish a causal link between a disease and its origin. In my hometown, for example, the factories that lined the lake when I was a child are for the most part boarded up and bankrupt, some have been torn down and carted. 6 Lake ...
... to establish a causal link between a disease and its origin. In my hometown, for example, the factories that lined the lake when I was a child are for the most part boarded up and bankrupt, some have been torn down and carted. 6 Lake ...
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... factories. I spoke, for example, to the person who used to run the Johns-Manville plant that produced asbestos-laden building products on Waukegan's lakefront. Asbestos is a natural substance that when inhaled can cause a severe and ...
... factories. I spoke, for example, to the person who used to run the Johns-Manville plant that produced asbestos-laden building products on Waukegan's lakefront. Asbestos is a natural substance that when inhaled can cause a severe and ...
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... factories along the lake. Instead of focusing on Waukegan's growing industrial presence, though, Bradbury chose to write about the town's rich natural setting, a setting that would become little more than a tragic backdrop to the ...
... factories along the lake. Instead of focusing on Waukegan's growing industrial presence, though, Bradbury chose to write about the town's rich natural setting, a setting that would become little more than a tragic backdrop to the ...
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... factories and eventually settled into Waukegan. Articles from the Waukegan Daily Sun in the 1920s also report that the factories “imported negroes” as workers from the South.7 With the needs of industry satiated, at least temporarily ...
... factories and eventually settled into Waukegan. Articles from the Waukegan Daily Sun in the 1920s also report that the factories “imported negroes” as workers from the South.7 With the needs of industry satiated, at least temporarily ...
Índice
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Coho Capital of the World | 19 |
The False Center of the Collage | 27 |
Lake Michigan Legacy | 35 |
A Marked Woman | 53 |
Miasma | 63 |
Hitchhiking Hormones | 73 |
Destiny | 99 |
Why Ask Why? | 111 |
Proof | 123 |
Epilogue | 135 |
Acknowledgments | 141 |
Notes | 145 |
Selected Bibliography | 163 |
Index | 171 |
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Lake Effect: Two Sisters and a Town's Toxic Legacy Nancy A. Nichols No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2010 |
Lake Effect: Two Sisters and a Town's Toxic Legacy Nancy A. Nichols No hay ninguna vista previa disponible - 2008 |
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