DOING ASBESTOS THEY CAN? - there is a place called communications hill in south san jose, california, and years ago i used to play parties with various bands at a hilltop mansion (lots of fun i probably shouldn't go into detail about) - since then there has been an article in metro magazine about the presence of asbestos on the hill [october 9-15, 2003 - click here] and now a friend of mine has been given the duty of scraping one foot of soil from the mountaintop (with NO respiratory protection!) so a subdivision of houses can be built on it (for rich people who likely lined the pockets of SJ city council members) - so does anybody really think removing a foot of soil will completely resolve the asbestos problem? - i know the city of san jose is doing asbestos it can, but i think they can do better than this - READ BREATHING UNEASY