Superfund is a huge federal program with growing costs which in a decade might rival those of social security and defense. It is extremely complex, involving cleanups of scores of chemicals at thousands of sites. This book tells the story of one aspect of Superfund—its lead-in-soil cleanups.

The debate over the future of Medicare is set to continue in 2002. The Bush administration has indicated that its proposed budget for fiscal year 2003, due in early February, will include a combined Medicare reform and prescription drug plan.

At a September 21, 2001 “Fairness Hearing,” federal district court judge William H. Orrick, Jr. heard arguments opposing the latest proposed modifications to the city’s 20 year-old Consent Decree. The message conveyed by parents was clear: they refuse to return to the days in San Francisco Unified School District (“SFUSD” or the “district”) when school reform meant revamping student assignment policies, and multi-million dollar failed busing campaigns, all in the misguided hope that some new distribution of students — based on racial and socioeconomic background — would improve student achievement.