Posted on 11/26/2001 4:04:50 AM PST by TroutStalker
Edited on 04/22/2004 11:45:43 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Unlike Emma Bovary and Scarlett O'Hara, Erin Brockovich is a real, live person. She's a 41-year-old mother of three with a gift for publicity. Julia Roberts won an Oscar playing her in the eponymous movie about a legal assistant who got 650 prospective plaintiffs together in 1993 in the desert town of Hinkley, Calif., to sue Pacific Gas & Electric for making them sick. Three years later, PG&E settled for $333 million.
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Yeah, maybe they'll be "victimized" by the same type of "runaway" juries they make their living from now...
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Don't dismiss mold as an illness source--I know--I have mold allergies. I finally had to leave my birth state because of them, and move to a drier climate. However--mold growth in houses is almost always caused by something the homeowner has done--usually failing to keep sufficient heat in the house to prevent moisture buildup in an attempt to "save energy"--although in some cases, construction defects (leaking pipes, bad insulation in HVAC systems, etc.) can indeed be the culprit.
Of course, that doesn't say the Ms. Brockovich isn't an ambulance-chaser playing off her notoriety.
Explains a lot.
And no, I am not making this up.
They're called boobs, ED.
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