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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DS was accepted at UMD, GWU, W&M and St John's College in Annapolis.

American University gave me pause, and he did not apply there, since there is a well-known history of WWI chemical weapons testing on campus and in the surrounding Spring Valley neighborhood. I was concerned about exposure to carcinogens and other toxins, since reading a series of articles from a few years ago. Here is one of them:

https://washingtonian.com/2013/02/28/the-toxic-waste-pit-next-door/

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Cannot fathom nor relate to this level of paranoia.  Your precious child will be just fine and the chemicals that they put into their body voluntarily through food, drink and drugs will almost certainly have a longer half-life than neighborhood toxins.[/quote]

Your reaction makes no sense. Some families living in that neighborhood have had multiple cancers in their households that are not explained by genetics. The long-term, in-depth studies have not yet come out.

If you said that long-term residents of Spring Valley should be more concerned than transient dorm residents, OK, I can see that point. But to dismiss concerns out of hand just makes you look uninformed about environmental sources of carcinogens. For example, radioactive fallout in Europe from Chernobyl have made some regions dangerous for mushroom consumption, as far away from the explosion as eastern France. Even today, since decaying isotopes stay toxic for an extremely long time. They're not blaring that on the news, are they? And they're not likely to. Here we have toxins contaminating the ground, and they're not going to be eliminated any time soon if the government did a cursory clean-up and now refuses to acknowledge anything further needs to be done.[/quote]

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