CORRECTIONS.LEAD-SUCKING SUNFLOWERS NOT INCINERATED An On First Reading article in the July 2001 issue of State Legislatures about a Northwestern University Northwestern University, mainly at Evanston, Ill.; coeducational; chartered 1851, opened 1855 by Methodists. In 1873 it absorbed Evanston College for Ladies. study that is using sunflowers, goldenrod goldenrod, any species of the large genus Solidago of the family Asteraceae (aster family), chiefly North American weedy herbs. They have small yellow flowers clustered, often in panicles, along a wandlike stem. , fescue fescue (fĕs`ky  ), any of some 100 species of introduced Old World grasses of the genus Festuca. and corn to remove lead from residential
soil had an error.
The piece incorrectly stated that the plants were incinerated after they pulled lead and toxics out of the soil. In fact, the plants in the study are composted. When research in this U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development-funded study is completed some time this fall, and if the plants do absorb significant amounts of lead, the university plans to evaluate other ways to dispose of To determine the fate of; to exercise the power of control over; to fix the condition, application, employment, etc. of; to direct or assign for a use. See also: Dispose them. MAINE HAS $1.00 CIGARETTE EXCISE TAX Excise Tax 1. An indirect tax charged on the sale of a particular good. 2. A penalty tax applied to ineligible transactions in retirement accounts. This penalty is assessed by and paid to the IRS. Notes: 1. The Statestats page on cigarette excise taxes in the September 2001 issue contains incorrect information about Maine's 2001 increase. The correct tax increase per pack is $0.26, making the current cigarette excise tax $1.00. |
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