Number 24. You need chromium to make stainless steel. Its a useful, necessary thing in modern life. Mining and processing it, though, tend to be very, very toxic enterprises. If you like chrome, you probably would not be siked to have your home Orchids School near a chromium filter. Onethird of all the chromium in the world apparently comes from here, from this former soviet facility in western kazakhstan close to the russian border. Mark champion did a report on how toxic and dire the conditions are at that facility, but he also got these simple sad story of the finances of that place, and how the finances of that place that produces a third of the chromium in the world ended up connected to the president of the United States. When the sounion broke up, one thing that happened at plants, people were given shares at the place they worked at. They were going to be employee owners. Mark champion reports how the regular workers, those regular employe employees, people working in toxic con
Judge Joseph Toia tells convicted murderer at sentencing: 'Once the gun comes out, everybody’s life changes: yours, the deceased, all of the family that is here today.'
If you live in a place like Martha’s Vineyard, summer frequently means visitors from far away. We have just had our first set a niece and her husband from Virginia. It was a lovely three-day visit, filled with drives around the Island, walks on the main shopping areas of each Vineyard town, time on […]
Join us for a weekend of swing dancing in downtown Port Townsend. Swingin by the Sound is two days of Collegiate Shag workshops and three evenings of social dances.
Beginner and Intermediate track workshops are available (if you have never …