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Happy Friday, everybody.

What do a fishing hole in Louisiana, a playground in New York,

and a school in New Jersey have in common? All contains soil that's been contaminated with lead.

And where that lead came from, and just who knew about it and when could have major implications

for rival telecom companies. An investigation by the Wall Street Journal has confirmed

the existence of more than 2,000 lead-covered cables snaking across the U.S., underground,

underwater, and on poles overhead. And the companies that put those cables there may be in

trouble. To understand why, you have to go back in time. In 1877, when the American Bell

Telephone Company was formed, the cables represented a new frontier, bringing the promise of Telegraph

and telephone exchanges to major cities in the U.S. In 1890, the American Bell Telephone

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