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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Lake Effect: Two Sisters and a Town's Toxic Legacy
  name:
    name part: A. Nichols Nancy
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: London
    publisher: Island Press
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: vie
  physical description:
    extent: 178tr. ; 27cm
  abstract: On her deathbed, Sue asked her sister for one thing: to write about the connection between the industrial pollution in their hometown and the rare cancer that was killing her. Fulfilling that promise has been Nancy Nichols mission for more than a decade. Lake Effect is the story of her investigation. It reaches back to their childhood in Waukegan, Illinois, an industrial town on Lake Michigan once known for good factory jobs and great fishing. Now Waukegan is famous for its Superfund sites: as one resident put it, asbestos to the north, PCBs to the south. Drawing on her experience as a journalist, Nichols interviewed dozens of scientists, doctors, and environmentalists to determine if these pollutants could have played a role in her sister s death. While researching Sue's cancer, she discovered her own: a vicious though treatable form of pancreatic cancer. Doctors and even family urged her to forget causes and concentrate on cures, but Nichols knew that it was relentless questioning that had led to her diagnosis. And that it is questioning by government as well as individuals that could save other lives. Lake Effect challenges us to ask why. It is the fulfillment of a sister s promise. And it is a call to stop the pollution that is endangering the health of all our families.
  note: A. Nichols Nancy
  subject:
    topic: Cancer_Environmental aspects_Illinois_Waukegan
  subject:
    topic: polychlorinated biphennyls- environmental aspects-illinois-waukegan
  classification: 616.99 / L100K-n
  identifier: 1-59726
  record info:
    record creation date: 120426
    record change date: 20120426000000
    record identifier: TVCDKTCT13781