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After reading that, I turned the page to Michael Hawthorne’s report (which began on page one and jumped inside) on the health hazards posed by Chicago’s ancient lead pipes and water mains. The story ended dramatically. A lead expert who’d studied the problem for the EPA said it’s so huge, not just here but in cities across America, that utilities and state governments hate to acknowledge it. “But if we don’t start to do something, we’re sacrificing another generation of children to the hazards of lead.”
I’d accepted the claim made by Abdul-Samad as figuratively and perhaps even literally true. The warning of the EPA guy felt like a stretch. And reading them together, I wondered if it was time to issue an alert to copy desks everywhere. So I searched the Internet.
From The Age, a daily in Melbourne, Australia: “Premier Denis Napthine has urged Tony Abbott to promote more women from Victoria into the federal ministry, as the new prime minister seeks to address a gender gap within his senior ranks . . . . Speaking on this issue last year, deputy Liberal leader Louise Asher warned that the party was in danger of ‘losing a generation’ unless more women were preselected to run for Parliament.”
These are all recent postings. From earlier this year I spotted these headlines:
