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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... late-night phone calls, news of the contaminants mixed with news of what my sister was wearing, what kind of curtains she should get for her bedroom, and what she was making for dinner. On trips back home in the late 1980s, we walked ...
... late-night phone calls, news of the contaminants mixed with news of what my sister was wearing, what kind of curtains she should get for her bedroom, and what she was making for dinner. On trips back home in the late 1980s, we walked ...
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... late the next year that my sister, weak and failing from chemotherapy and a bone-marrow transplant, whispered to me in the same secretive tone she had used to explain everything—sex, the death of our mother, and most recently in the ...
... late the next year that my sister, weak and failing from chemotherapy and a bone-marrow transplant, whispered to me in the same secretive tone she had used to explain everything—sex, the death of our mother, and most recently in the ...
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... Late, Great Lakes. “There were no natural openings in the coastline in the Waukegan vicinity.”3 Still, the determined people of the town dug a harbor into the sand at a cost of about $225,000 in the early 1900s. The new harbor and the ...
... Late, Great Lakes. “There were no natural openings in the coastline in the Waukegan vicinity.”3 Still, the determined people of the town dug a harbor into the sand at a cost of about $225,000 in the early 1900s. The new harbor and the ...
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... late 1960s, the town's population was more than sixty-five thousand and the town's 130 factories produced more than 450 different products.11A 1967 newspaper editorial emphasized the rapid increase in the number ofjobs, noting that the ...
... late 1960s, the town's population was more than sixty-five thousand and the town's 130 factories produced more than 450 different products.11A 1967 newspaper editorial emphasized the rapid increase in the number ofjobs, noting that the ...
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... closed its plant in the late 1990s. When local reporters asked the company spokeswoman, Marlena Cannon, in 1998 whether there was any hostility over all the damage that had been done to the lake and town, she gave her. 15 Green Town.
... closed its plant in the late 1990s. When local reporters asked the company spokeswoman, Marlena Cannon, in 1998 whether there was any hostility over all the damage that had been done to the lake and town, she gave her. 15 Green Town.
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 |
Otras ediciones - Ver todo
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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