Treatment continues at the sites today, with vapor barriers in place, so-called slurry walls going down 40 feet into the earth, well sucking up water to be treated, and systems operating to extract toxins from the air and water.

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Consider media accounts of how WD-40 was used to extract a python from a bus exhaust pipe or a burglar stuck in an air duct (yes, he was arrested).

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Consider the newspaper accounts of how WD-40 was used to extract a python from a bus exhaust pipe or a burglar stuck in an air duct (yes, he was arrested).

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They aren't, and they create their own problems: the perfection of the seal they provide means that the air in the bottle has to be expensively removed before the stopper is inserted, and they are harder to extract than their natural competitors, although they do provide the expected satisfying plop when the bottle is opened.

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