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Fig. 15. Permanent markers components. John Hart and Associates, P.A.
2004.
for all foreseeable disasters—except, of course, for human intervention.
Needless to say, governments and commissioned designers
of waste-marking systems believe that the best way to prevent inadvertent
intrusion into their poison wells is to mark where to fi nd
it. It seems that simply not marking where to unearth the waste
is psychically rather diffi cult—something that, for all of the professed
infl uence of psychoanalysis upon the panel, neither team
seems to have recognized in their own deliberations. Within our
own lifetime, not marking means not commemorating the most