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- <text id=89TT3043>
- <title>
- Nov. 20, 1989: American Notes:Mississippi
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- Nov. 20, 1989 Freedom!
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 69
- American Notes
- MISSISSIPPI
- Poo-Poo Choo-Choo
- </hdr><body>
- <p> It is a replay of the famous 1987 saga of the garbage scow
- that couldn't find a home -- only worse. This time the carrier
- is a 61-car train. On board: 5,000 tons of sewage sludge, most
- of it treated human waste. It is nothing to sniff at. In fact,
- nobody wants it.
- </p>
- <p> The sludge, courtesy of the citizens of Baltimore, set out
- on its vagabondage from Maryland nine weeks ago, and has been
- plying the rails ever since. After Louisiana declined the
- tribute, the so-called Poo-Poo Choo-choo chugged into a rail
- yard near Pascagoula, Miss. But Mississippi's department of
- environmental quality threatened a fine of $2 million a day, so
- the train operator gave up, and at week's end was preparing to
- follow the scent back to Maryland.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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