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| | TIME Magazine Archive Article -- That Awful Smell -- Oct. 30, 1972 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-18) |
 | | More than a year ago, the burghers of Hannêche in eastern Belgium began complaining about "that awful smell" emanating from the rusty vats stored in an abandoned sugar-beet factory. |
| | One of the stored vats burst, and the stench, rather like the smell of decomposing rats, brought still more complaints from the village of Burdinne, six miles away. |
| | Only last month, finally, did the ministry of labor, which deals with environmental problems, get around to investigating. |
| www.time.com /time/archive/printout/0,23657,906663,00.html (140 words) |
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