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Flint

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• Originally published 02/15/2016

  How Flint’s water and Brazil’s Zika stoke anxiety about kids

  Steven Mintz

  The key question is whether Americans will respond to Zika and lead poisoning as problems predominantly of the poor, met with pity and a shrug of the shoulders, or as a call to arms.

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• Originally published 02/09/2016

  Two, Three... Many Flints

  David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz

  America’s Coast-to-Coast Toxic Crisis

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• Originally published 02/05/2016

  America’s First Great Epidemics From Lead in Water Pipes

  Karen Clay and Werner Troesken

  During the 1890s and early 1900s, epidemics of water-related lead poisoning occurred all across the United States and Europe.

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• Originally published 02/05/2016

  Piping as poison: the Flint water crisis and America’s toxic infrastructure

  Chris Sellers

  An estimated three to six million miles of lead pipes across our country still carry water, and most all of them are vulnerable to similar dangers.

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• Originally published 02/01/2016

  Flint's toxic water crisis was 50 years in the making

  Andrew R. Highsmith

  Structural inequality and environmental degradation are the twin problems today in Flint -- as they have been for more than half a century.

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• Originally published 01/23/2016

  Why Did Officials Neglect Flint? Because They Felt They Could.

  Bob Buzzanco

  This is the long awful lesson of impoverished communities.

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• Originally published 01/20/2016

  It’s not coincidence that Flint happens to be where GM got its start

  GM introduced lead into gasoline. The Flint River was where lead in cars wound up.

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• Originally published 11/05/2013

  Hi-tech aqueduct explorers map Rome's 'final frontier'

  These urban explorers are mapping Rome's subterranean secrets.

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• Originally published 11/22/2016

  Get the Lead Out!

  Steve Hochstadt

  Conservatives say regulations are “job killers”. I say they are life savers.