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El. knyga: Lake Effect: Two Sisters and a Town's Toxic Legacy

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  • Formatas: 208 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 18-Mar-2010
  • Leidėjas: Island Press
  • Kalba: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781597265232
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  • Formatas: 208 pages
  • Išleidimo metai: 18-Mar-2010
  • Leidėjas: Island Press
  • Kalba: eng
  • ISBN-13: 9781597265232
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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.


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.  

 

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.  

Chapter One The Used-Car Salesman's Daughters 1(10)
Chapter Two Green Town 11(8)
Chapter Three Coho Capital of the World 19(8)
Chapter Four The False Center of the Collage 27(8)
Chapter Five Lake Michigan Legacy 35(18)
Chapter Six A Marked Woman 53(10)
Chapter Seven Miasma 63(10)
Chapter Eight Hitchhiking Hormones 73(12)
Chapter Nine Me Too 85(14)
Chapter Ten Destiny 99(12)
Chapter Eleven Why Ask Why? 111(12)
Chapter Twelve Proof 123(12)
Epilogue 135(6)
Acknowledgments 141(4)
Notes 145(18)
Selected Bibliography 163(8)
Index 171
Nancy A. Nichols is a journalist, editor, and broadcaster whose writing has appeared in The Chicago Tribune, The New York Times Book Review, The Harvard Business Review, and The Nation, among other publications.
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