Pure PCBs are oozing out of the bedrock to this day, constantly recontaminating the river on a daily basis. Over 300,000 pounds remain concentrated in bottom sediments of the river today. The spread of PCBs throughout the Hudson River and the food chain, which it supports, has created one of the most extensive hazardous waste problems in the nation. ... Women of childbearing age and children under fifteen are advised to eat none at all. GE has been found to be the prime source of contamination in the Hudson Rivers instance , and GE has been held responsible. ...

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The town was established in 1746 and the water power supplied by the Blackstone River helped to industrialize the area. The river is still well kept and remains a famous landmark for Cumberland residents. ... Only 4% of families with children are below poverty in the town of Cumberland and 22% of the population is under the age of eighteen. 5,135 of those children are enrolled in the widely respected public school system which consists of one high school, two middle schools, and five elementary schools. ...

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This difference can be clearly examined in Keep the River on Your Right by Tobias Schneebaum. ... In Keep the River on Your Right, Schneebaum is immersed into a culture that has a totally different set of social standards. ... It is the American constructed idea that in order to be civilized, people need to have an almost fear of the bodies of others, especially that of children. ... He talks of the case of Kelly Michaels, where a mild-mannered, devout Catholic who loved children (Newman 175) was accused of numerous forms of sexual abuse towards the children under her care at a preschool. ...

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John River in 1564. ... He is the youngest of four children. ... Also in 2000, Graham achieved a milestone in his career-long battle to save America's Everglades with congressional approval of a comprehensive plan to restore the River of Grass. ... Graham legislation would also ensure that low-income legal immigrant children and pregnant women have access to the Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program to meet their health-care needs. ... Graham is also spearheading a campaign to reform dredging practices that have degraded the Apalachicola River. ...

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Its big oceans lakes and rivers were home for millions of gorgeous creatures that swam peacefully in clear water. ... Will be this picture of a world just available to decorate the walls in the future houses, or just a bed story that our children will tell their grandchildren? ...

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The Mesopotamian basin is the land between the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. ... In the southern lowlands of Mesopotamia fertile silts are deposited by the flooding of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers. ... It is easier on very young children, the elderly, pregnant and nursing mothers to settle in one place rather than being constantly on the move. ...

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Images of a "metallic blue river, the emerald marsh,"(69) and "the scattered islands" with their "white bits of beach"(69), imply such a beautiful setting. ... They have what seems to be a nice house, with sufficient room for each of the four children. ... The younger children, seeing the crying father as "a crystalline heap of splinters and memories"(67), tumble into their own bleak and solemn pit of emotion despair and disbelief. ...

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Prior releases include River of Love and Rechordings. ... In 1997, Foster received the esteemed Neil Bogart Memorial Fund Children's Choice Award. ... A long time champion of children and advocate of their rights, Foster established the David Foster Foundation to assist families of children in need or organ transplants. To date, the foundation has raised several million dollars and assisted numerous children throughout North America. ... They have six children between them. ...

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Congress established the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) to develop the Tennessee River in the concern of navigation and flood control and to provide electric power to a wide area of the southeastern United States. The TVA was created in an attempt to improve the steadily worsening conditions in the Tennessee River Basin. In particular, the basin was suffering from frequent destructive floods, intermittent unavailability of the river, deforestation, and severely eroded land. ... Finally, Congress proposed the Social Security Act of 1935, which established a system of unemployment insurance, o...

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The diction as used by Rupert Brooke in The Soldier, is plain and non-descriptive, but calming and peaceful, for example, "washed by rivers", "blest by suns of home", "dreams happy as her day" and "hearts at peace". ... As for imagery, Rupert Brooke uses calm and peaceful images, to give the reader the image of pastoral and idyllic England, with words and phrases such as "suns of home", "washed by the rivers", "dreams happy as her day" and "hearts at peace, under an England heaven", he also gives the image of a body, with the words "hearts", "pulse" and "mind". ... Rupert Brooke, with his phra...

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This is a development confirmed in the novel by her marriage to Rochester and her giving birth to her own children. ... Not only does she have an immediate family in her husband and children, but she also has, in the Rivers, cousins who are more like brother and sisters to her. ... Through her connection with the Rivers, she acquires the status of belonging to a long-established county family, and she reinforces this upward move by marrying into the landed gentry. ...

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She is trying to contend with the loss of her husband to the work force overseas, the loss of her children as they become adults, the rental of her house to another family, and the exile from her youth as she lies on the brink of menopause. ... Her children had grown up and moved on. It is normal and acceptable for children to leave the house as soon as they are old enough to support themselves, for at this time it is their turn to raise a family of their own. ...

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In fact, the scarcity of clean drinking water is responsible for the deaths of 2,000 children a day; dehydration and poor sanitation. ... Some plants choose not to dam the water though, and use the river's natural flow to create "run of the river " power generation. ...

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This was the migration of almost 110,000 men, women, and children of Japanese decent from their homes on the Pacific coast into ten wartime communities constructed in remote areas between the Sierra-Nevada Mountains and the Mississippi River. ...

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In India and the orient, there was a decided emphasis on having numerous children, marrying off daughters as soon as they were physically able, and favoring sons over daughters. ... In order to keep this standard of living, they produced fewer children, which would have competed with the animals for the scarce food resources (Jones 14-15). The lack of an extended family also contributed to later marriages and fewer children among the Europeans. ... Floods regularly occur along the Yellow River in China and the Yangtze resulting in famine from lost crops in subsequent years, not to mention lost...

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In one of the areas in America hit hardest by the Depression, the Tennessee River Valley, an act named after the valley was formed to create a "planned economy." The Tennessee River was to be dammed up in several places to prevent flooding in the area, create jobs in building the dams, and to provide large amounts of inexpensive hydroelectric power. ... Children under sixteen were not allowed to work and sixteen to eighteen year olds were barred from dangerous work. ...

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For example, New York has one of the cleanest drinking water systems in the world, the Hudson River, which has allowed it to save a tremendous amount of money in filtration plants. ... The Hudson River provides 9 million people with fresh drinking water in New York City alone. ... (The Case for a Ban on Fracking 7) A hospital that serves six counties near drilling sites also reported asthma rates three times higher than the state average and that one quarter of young children in the community had asthma(The Case for a Ban on Fracking). ...

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The colors of the town are black and red - red brick covered in black ash from the factories, which even infected the river to bleed these colors combined: It was a town of red brick, or brick that would have been red if the smoke and ashes had allowed it; but as the matters stood, it was a town of unnatural red and black like the painted face of a savage. ... It had a black canal in it and a river that ran purple with ill-smelling dye. (30) Associating Coketown with "the painted face of a savage" implies that the growing urbanization is in reality the opposite of what it claims to be; rath...

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In 1782, James Watt invented the first steam powered engine, that could help run the factories, and allowed the factories to be built anywhere not just by a river or a body of water. ... Since women and children were cheaper to hire, they ran many of these sweatshops. Some of the children as young as six were beaten, or dipped into tanks of cold water to keep them awake. ... Women also replaced children in the workforces because of the new child labor laws that had been enforced. With the growing power of the industry, modern conveniences like canned food, dish and laundry soap, and contra...

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These external transactions may include industrial output and energy consumption, as well as the unpaid work of women and children hauling water or fuel-wood, the burning of rainforest to clear land on which to grow food for one's family, drug-trafficking and other crime, traditional barter, and cooperative labor exchange. ... River systems and aquifers have been seriously depleted by water withdrawals. ...

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The community minded focuses that are a critical aspect of Aboriginal culture are alluded to by Winton through the children "passing by together" when Rose and Quick were camping, or in the instance when a "whole crowd" watched the families dance together by the river. ...

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Women had scored some social victories as well, particularly the Law on Maternity, which provides for family planning, the recognition of consensual union as equivalent to marriage, equality of children whether born to a wedded or unwedded couple, and a cabinet office to promote women's development. Little by little the myth according to which women had to stay at home to carry out their "natural mission" of raising children, bearing children, and serving as an instrument of pleasure is dying out. ... She forgets her reality by escaping into her imagination, which is stimulated by lite...

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Women had scored some social victories as well, particularly the Law on Maternity, which provides for family planning, the recognition of consensual union as equivalent to marriage, equality of children whether born to a wedded or unwedded couple, and a cabinet office to promote women's development. Little by little the myth according to which women had to stay at home to carry out their "natural mission" of raising children, bearing children, and serving as an instrument of pleasure is dying out. ... She forgets her reality by escaping into her imagination, which is stimulated by lite...

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Thomas tries to make us, as adults, feel as he feels - he knows that all adults share one common experience at least - we were all once children, so that:- we were all once delighted - none of us, as children, ever valued those fleeting pleasures within a greater whole - we are all nostalgic for something, someone or somewhere. ... We recall those kinfolk people who loved us as children, their closeness and kindness; their voices, smells and faces. ... On the ride (real or imagined), I would dangle "daisies and barley" as I passed the trees as the sun reflected off the sheen of the apples ...

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In the novel, The Bridge built over the river Drina transcends to become a symbol of this regional history and much more than a simple structural masterpiece. ... They would take these children to Istanbul or another central part of the Ottoman Empire, and convert them to Islam.2 After being positioned as a janissary in the Ottoman Imperial administration, Mehmed demonstrates he is a "brave officer at the Sultan's court" and moves on to become a Great Admiral of the Fleet, eventually becoming the Sultan's son-in-law. ... The kapia, which is the center portion of the bridge ...

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