Untreated sewage and the 1.3 million pounds of polychlorinated biphenyls that General Electric dumped in the Hudson River turned the harbor into a cesspool.

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So a decade after the boom, incubators are seen by many as a cesspool of amateur entrepreneurs and poorly executed startups.

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Take the Aral Sea in Central Asia, now a shrunken, poisonous cesspool of pesticide residues and toxic chemicals that are causing an explosion of chronic bronchitis, cancer, typhoid and hepatitis, kidney and liver disease.

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