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VOL. CLXIII . . . No. 56,345
MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2013
© 2013 The New York Times
EASTERN STATES
PRESS MIDWEST
TO IMPROVE AIR
PETITIONING THE E.P.A.
New York and Others
See Pollution Wafting
From Rust Belt
By CORAL DAVENPORT
WASHINGTON — In a battle
that pits the East Coast against
the Midwest over the winds that
carry dirty air from coal plants,
the governors of eight Northeastern states plan to petition the Environmental Protection Agency
on Monday to force tighter air
pollution regulations on nine
Rust Belt and Appalachian
states.
The East Coast states, including New York and Connecticut,
have for more than 15 years been
subject to stricter air pollution requirements than many other
parts of the country. Their governors have long criticized the Appalachian and Rust Belt states,
including Ohio, Kentucky and
Michigan, for their more lenient
rules on pollution from coal-fired
power plants, factories and tailpipes — allowing those economies to profit from cheap energy
while their belched soot and
smog are carried on the prevailing winds that blow across the
United States.
All the governors on the petition are Democrats. Gov. Chris
Christie of New Jersey, a Republican and a potential presidential
candidate in 2016, has not signed
it.
The petition comes the day before the Supreme Court is to hear
arguments to determine the fate
of a related E.P.A. regulation
known as the “good neighbor”
rule. The regulation, officially
called the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule, would force states with
coal pollution that wafts across
state lines to rein in soot and
smog, either by installing costly
pollution control technology or
by shutting the power plants.
Even if the regulation is upheld, the Eastern governors are
seeking stronger constraints on
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Girl in the Shadows: Dasani’s Homeless Life
By ANDREA ELLIOTT
S
HE wakes to the sound of breathing. The smaller children lie tangled beside her, their chests rising and falling
under winter coats and wool blankets. A few feet away,
their mother and father sleep near the mop bucket they use as
a toilet. Two other children share a mattress by the rotting wall
where the mice live, opposite the baby, whose crib is warmed
by a hair dryer perched on a milk crate.
Slipping out from her covers, the oldest girl sits at the window. On mornings like this, she can see all the way across
Brooklyn to the Empire State Building, the first New York skyscraper to reach 100 floors. Her gaze always stops at that iconic
temple of stone, its tip pointed celestially, its facade lit with
promise.
“It makes me feel like there’s something going on out
there,” says the 11-year-old girl, never one for patience. This
child of New York is always running before she walks. She likes
being first — the first to be born, the first to go to school, the
first to make the honor roll.
Even her name, Dasani, speaks of a certain reach. The
bottled water had come to Brooklyn’s bodegas just before she
was born, catching the fancy of her mother, who could not afford such indulgences. It hinted at a different, upwardly mobile
clientele, a set of newcomers who over the next decade would
transform the borough.
Dasani’s own neighborhood, Fort Greene, is now one of
gentrification’s gems. Her family lives in the Auburn Family
Residence, a decrepit city-run shelter for the homeless. It is a
place where mold creeps up walls and roaches swarm, where
feces and vomit plug communal toilets, where sexual predators
have roamed and small children stand guard for their single
mothers outside filthy showers.
It is no place for children. Yet Dasani is among 280 chil-
INVISIBLE CHILD
First in a series.
AS NEW YORK HAS
BEEN REBORN,
CHILDREN LIKE
DASANI HAVE BEEN
LEFT BEHIND.
PHOTOGRAPHS BY
RUTH FREMSON
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The Man Hired Crowds in Kiev Topple Lenin Statue as Civil Uprising Grows Three Senators
To Save Detroit By DAVID M. HERSZENHORN
Try to Hold Off
and ANDREW E. KRAMER
(Not by Detroit) KIEV,
G.O.P. in South
Ukraine — Public proBy MONICA DAVEY
and BILL VLASIC
DETROIT — Kevyn D. Orr, the
man who must now revive Detroit, commutes each week from
Maryland to a cavernous old office building here that seems to
dare him to succeed: the former
headquarters of a company, itself
recently in bankruptcy, that once
sold more than half of America’s
cars — General Motors.
His office, on the 14th floor, is
sparsely furnished, but in the
stack of papers on his desk he
keeps a few photographs — of
New York City at its financial low
in the 1970s. Gritty streets that
look, he says, like some of Detroit’s unlit, forgotten neighborhoods today.
“Anytime somebody says it
can’t happen, I whip those pictures out and say, ‘Oh, don’t you
bet against it,’” Mr. Orr said the
other day, not long after a federal
judge allowed Detroit to become
the nation’s largest city ever to
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tests thundered into a full-throttle civil uprising in Ukraine on
Sunday, as hundreds of thousands of protesters answered
President Viktor F. Yanukovich’s
dismissiveness with their biggest
rally so far, demanding that he
and his government resign.
At the height of the unrest on
Sunday night, a seething crowd
toppled and smashed a statue of
Lenin, the most prominent monument to the Communist leader in
Kiev. The act was heavy with
symbolism, underscoring the
protesters’ rage at Russia over
its role in the events that first
prompted the protests: Mr. Yanukovich’s abrupt refusal to sign
sweeping political and free-trade
agreements with the European
Union.
After an electrifying assembly
in Independence Square in the
center of Kiev, the main focus of
the protests, the huge crowd
surged across the capital, erecting barriers to block the streets
around the presidential headquarters and pitching huge tents
in strategic intersections. They
By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
and JEREMY W. PETERS
SERGEY PONOMAREV FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES
Protesters in Kiev took turns using a sledgehammer on a statue of Lenin after pulling it down.
were not challenged by the police, who have largely disengaged
since their bloody crackdown on
a group of protesters on Nov. 30
sharply increased outrage at the
government.
International concern over the
unrest in Ukraine appeared to
deepen on Sunday, as the United
Nations secretary general, Ban
Ki-moon, telephoned Mr. Yanukovich and Western leaders continued to call on him to respond to
the demonstrators’ demands.
The European Union has been
eager to draw Ukraine, a nation
of 46 million, into closer alliance
with the West, while Russia has
sought to safeguard its major
economic and political interests
in its close neighbor. Making the
crisis more acute, Ukraine is teetering on the verge of bankruptcy
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NEW ORLEANS — Things traditionally get started a little late
down here, an inclination that
runs from mealtimes to political
races. But with nearly a year to
go before the 2014 election, it is already open season on Senator
Mary L. Landrieu, Democrat of
Louisiana.
“Why didn’t she do her job,
protect us from Obamacare from
the start?” asks a new ad from
Americans for Prosperity, a political nonprofit group founded by
the
billionaire
industrialists
Charles and David Koch. And a
post from a conservative blog
that refers to her as “MussoLandrieu,” with a picture of her
face superimposed on the body of
Benito Mussolini, has been making the rounds on Twitter.
Republicans are so giddy about
the prospect of winning her seat
that their main problem is too
many of them are trying to do so.
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EDITORIAL, OP-ED A26-27
Remembering Mandela
Paying a Price
Eavesdropping Curbs Sought
Highs (Jets) and Lows (Giants)
Paul Krugman
South Africans began a week of commemorations of Nelson Mandela’s life
with what officials called a day of prayer
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and reflection.
Low-premium health policies bought
through exchanges often have higher
deductibles and out-of-pocket costs than
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typical employer plans.
Eight technology companies are mounting a public campaign to urge President
Obama and Congress to set new limits
PAGE B1
on government surveillance.
The Jets scored a season-high 37 points
in beating Oakland; the Giants were
eliminated from postseason contention
with a 37-14 loss in San Diego. PAGE D1
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