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Toms River a story of science and salvation

Recounts the decades-long saga of the New Jersey seaside town plagued by childhood cancers caused by air and water pollution due to the indiscriminate dumping of toxic chemicals. One of New Jersey's seemingly innumerable quiet seaside towns, Toms River became the unlikely setting for a decades-...

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Main Author: Fagin, Dan.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Bantam Books, c2013.
Subjects:
Drinking water > Contamination > Health aspects > New Jersey > Toms River Watershed.
Cancer > New Jersey > Toms River Watershed.
Groundwater > Pollution > Health aspects > New Jersey > Toms River Watershed.
Water quality > New Jersey > Toms River Watershed.
Toms River Watershed (N.J.) > Environmental conditions.
Table of Contents:
  • Marking time
  • The Ice Cream Factory. Pirates
  • Insensible things
  • First fingerprints
  • Secrets
  • Sharkey and Columbo at the Rustic Acres
  • Cells
  • On Cardinal Drive.
  • Breach. Water and salt
  • Hippies in the kitchen
  • The coloring contest
  • Cases
  • Acceptable risks
  • Friends and neighbors.
  • Counting. Two wards, two hits
  • Cluster busting
  • Moving on
  • Invisible trauma
  • A cork in the ocean
  • Expectations.
  • Causes. Outsiders
  • Surrogacy
  • Blood work
  • Associations
  • Legacies.

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