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Over 40 years ago chemistry and technology were heralded as the makers of a new world. Together they produced many products that enhanced modern living. Scientists were praised for “creating new things that Nature forgot.” But with these “new things that Nature forgot” came the chemical waste dumps​—environmental monsters that maim and kill. Can these “ticking time bombs” be defused?

5 CHEMICAL DUMPS ARE TICKING TIME BOMBS

6 “WE LIVED ON TOP OF A TIME BOMB”

12 “JUST THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG”

14 THOSE FRIGHTENING CHEMICAL WASTES​—IS THERE AN ANSWER?