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September 4, 1978

The New Yorker cover for September 4, 1978

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a reporter at large

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Thomas Whiteside

A REPORTER AT LARGE about dioxin contamination in&around Seveso, in Lombardy, Italy. On July 10, 1976, an explosion in a chemical reactor at the plant of …