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He runs a multimillion-dollar Foothill Ranch vitamin company whose products get rave reviews from actors Sylvester Stallone and Chuck Norris and New York Mets catcher Mike Piazza. But New Jersey officials are preparing a bitter pill for 88-year-old Jay Patrick: They want to force him to pay for the estimated $2-million cleanup at the site of a chemical company he ran for 25 years in Bergen County where about 1,000 drums of toxic solvents were found buried. Patrick acknowledges that Tect Inc.

He runs a multimillion-dollar Foothill Ranch vitamin company whose products get rave reviews from actors Sylvester Stallone and Chuck Norris and New York Mets catcher Mike Piazza. But New Jersey officials are preparing a bitter pill for 88-year-old Jay Patrick: They want to force him to pay for the estimated $2-million cleanup at the site of a chemical company he ran for 25 years in Bergen County where about 1,000 drums of toxic solvents were found buried. Patrick acknowledges that Tect Inc.

MOJAVE — Just before daybreak, a group of naturalists don parkas to blunt the frosty wind blowing down a narrow canyon in the Tehachapi Mountains north of Los Angeles. They mount spotting scopes and cameras on tripods, and wait. "Showtime," one of them whispers at the first rays of light. The silence is broken by thousands of brightly colored birds the size of Christmas ornaments pouring north through the canyon on whooshing wings, just a few yards above ground. Kern County bird expert Bob Barnes stands spellbound.