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Article: Crawling out of the pipe: the hazardous waste that makes more of itself.(includes related articles)
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- World Watch
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- January 1, 1999
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The hazardous waste that makes more of itself
The convulsions have ebbed away but left a low-grade infection, incurable and subject to flare-up. This is the victim: the Black Sea, where Ovid passed his exile, where the Byzantine Empire rose and gave way to the Crusaders, the Golden Horde, and the Ottoman Turks. These are the waters stained by the terrible pogroms of Stalin and Hitler, caressed by generations of Russian elite on holiday.
And all that time, along the Atlantic coast of the Americas, constellations of little luminescent blobs were drifting along, here and there, out beyond the roar of the surf. This is the pathogen: the Leidy's comb jelly ...