Chris Clemens, a freshman biology major at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, has spent the past few months baking an endless stream of cookies and cakes 13 hours a week.
“It’s the best job I’ve had so far,” said Clemens, a student baker who last semester had a forgettable stint as a bus boy for the school. [...]

If ever there were a piece of the Great Lakes you could call ruined, this is it - a shoreline poisoned for decades by raw sewage and manufacturing excrements such as cyanide, ammonia, oil and lead.
The wanton dumping from the mills, refineries and sewer pipes has been largely stanched, yet it remains a place forested [...]