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What Rotenberg really likes about politics is barn-storming and canvassing, what she calls "the sexy parts" of the process. "It's getting out and talking to the people...
...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...
Other consumers are turning to no-frills food warehouses, where BYOB means Bring Your Own Bags. Safeway's Canoga Park store in Los Angeles until June 1980 was a struggling supermarket, but now it has become a popular food barn. There are no sweepstakes or eye-catching displays to attract customers. The store, moreover, charges 25? if people pay for groceries with a check, and grocery bags cost 3? each. Large yellow arrows on the aisle floors direct customers to Maxwell House coffee at $2.99 per lb., ground beef...
...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...
...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...