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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Often such experiments will produce unwelcome changes-say, mutations in bacteria or bladder cancer in rats (as was the case with the animals fed huge amounts of saccharin). But what causes problems in one species may not be dangerous to another. In Michigan, researchers found that cows that licked barn wood treated with the preservative pentachlorophenol were starving to death. It turned out, explains Jerry Hook of Michigan State University's new Center for Environmental Toxicology, that "this substance is toxic to the bacteria in the cow rumen." Such toxicity did not show up in tests with rats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Toxicity Connection | 9/22/1980 | See Source »

...years old. His reason for stacking the wood in his meadow, he says, is that he has stacked so much wood in his barn already that there isn't room for more. His real reason is to set an example for the rest of us, as an elder of the tribe should do. I am inclined to believe that his tribe will persist, despite the caterpillars that now beset...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: Chewing on Granite | 9/1/1980 | See Source »

...Provo, Utah, and sent it in "because it wasn't expensive." She was accepted, and borrowed $200 from her grandmother to get there. Her favorite class was art. Jill thought she could be "one of the great ones, painting masterpieces." The students were told to draw a barn, and the results were displayed. Jill checked them out, feeling more confident about her own gifts as she went along. Then she saw one "that shook me like wheels spinning. It was art, far better than mine. It showed a loose shingle on the barn roof and a cobweb...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songs from a Loose Shingle | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...lessons. "I don't care if some one sings better or writes better songs," she says. "I don't have absolute standards for my music. It's all something personal, and not competitive. The first time I learned that was seeing that painting of the barn." That's a lot of good music from one loose shingle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Songs from a Loose Shingle | 7/14/1980 | See Source »

...says Mike, recalling the years he, Lester, 60, and Arnold, 56, struggled to keep the trap going. "Each of us faltered at times, but then the others were there to help. Teamwork isn't easy. We learned it out of necessity." Four years ago, Brick's old barn got too small for the growing business. The family decided to construct a new factory and pretty much built it themselves. Brick died of Parkinson's disease just after the decision was made. He never saw the new place, but he would have liked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Iowa: The Mice Aren't Telling | 3/17/1980 | See Source »

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