Rural Pennsylvanians Say Fracking 'Just Ruined Everything'
This story was originally published by the Center For Public Integrity. AVELLA, Pa. — Sixty years after his service in the Army, Jesse Eakin still completes his outfits with a pin that bears a lesson from the Korean War: Never Impossible. That maxim has been tested by a low-grade but persistent threat far different than the kind Eakin encountered in Korea: well water that’s too dangerous to drink. It gives off a strange odor and bears a yellow tint. It carries sand that clogs faucets in the hom..>> view originalThink You Need Grains to Make a Quality Wrap? These 10 Grain ...
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“It’s been an exciting morning—we got a new patient last night with acute mania,” the resident said with a wry smile. It was my first day in Changsha, China. I was at the Second Xiangya Hospital and frankly, I began to tense up wondering what “exciting” meant. Some words translate poorly. We stood outside the Female Psychiatric Ward. As the resident dug through her white coat pocket, I studied the door—a piece of sheet metal on hinges—that barricaded the main stairwell from the patients. Whoever..>> view original
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