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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... write about this.” I knew what she wanted. She wanted me to make meaning out of her agony, to make sure that all her suffering would amount to something in the end. “I will,” I assured her as I ran my hand over the thin hair on her head ...
... write about this.” I knew what she wanted. She wanted me to make meaning out of her agony, to make sure that all her suffering would amount to something in the end. “I will,” I assured her as I ran my hand over the thin hair on her head ...
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... write the kind of book she imagined. As a journalist working in print and television, I had covered some of the major environmental stories of the 1980s, stories that led to conversations that, in turn, would cause us to wonder about ...
... write the kind of book she imagined. As a journalist working in print and television, I had covered some of the major environmental stories of the 1980s, stories that led to conversations that, in turn, would cause us to wonder about ...
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... write an account of one person's illness, what I found was a universal story. Some of the toxic chemicals in my hometown are banned now, but they are still present in many places—and they are similar in both. 8 Lake Effect.
... write an account of one person's illness, what I found was a universal story. Some of the toxic chemicals in my hometown are banned now, but they are still present in many places—and they are similar in both. 8 Lake Effect.
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... writes the environmental historian Linda Nash in Inescapable Ecologies. “Neither the realm of nature nor the realm of the human remains pure.”6 Nowhere did this perverse relationship between ourselves, the industries we create, the ...
... writes the environmental historian Linda Nash in Inescapable Ecologies. “Neither the realm of nature nor the realm of the human remains pure.”6 Nowhere did this perverse relationship between ourselves, the industries we create, the ...
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... write about the town's rich natural setting, a setting that would become little more than a tragic backdrop to the ... writes William Ashworth in The Late, Great Lakes. “There were no natural openings in the coastline in the Waukegan ...
... write about the town's rich natural setting, a setting that would become little more than a tragic backdrop to the ... writes William Ashworth in The Late, Great Lakes. “There were no natural openings in the coastline in the Waukegan ...
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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