Word: california
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...response, The Grape Coalition alleges that conditions are much improved since the 1960s, and that information supplied by the UFW cannot be trusted. The UFW denies the truth to advance its political aims, they say, pointing out that California farmworkers themselves have abandoned the union, with fewer than I percent currently UFW members. And California, the Coalition notes, is the only state in the nation to require that pesticide-related illnesses be reported to state authorities...
Voters hungry for the facts should take The Grape Coalition's pleas with a grain of salt. Ninety percent of the nation's grapes come from California, and, according to the UFW, more pesticides are used on grapes than on all other fruits and vegetables combined. So wouldn't you expect California to be the state to most want to know about pesticide-related illnesses? Moreover, just because California knows about these cancers doesn't mean it's working to prevent them. Even if conditions have improved in the fields, does that mean they have improved enough...
...Nino panic is in full bloom. It's been blamed for an invasion of Argentine ants in Southern California, for starving seabirds off Oregon, for albatrosses abandoning their nests in the Galapagos Islands. An Israeli scientist thinks El Nino irregularities occasioned the biblical famine that led to the Jews' entry into Egypt--thus offering the nice ecumenical touch of El Nino, Spanish for the Christ Child, accounting for Passover...
...then the hysteria? This El Nino appeared from early data to be particularly strong. Hence the emergency preparations everywhere from California to South Africa. The major anticipated event for California is heavy rain. Some meteorologists, however, remain skeptical and distinctly unimpressed by the grim Noachian predictions. For example, Jan Null of the National Weather Service in Monterey, Calif., points out that in the eight heaviest El Nino years, California experienced on average only about a one-third increase in rainfall. In fact, two of these years, 1965 and 1991, brought drought...
...described many problems at a Vacaville, Calif., facility called Creekside, which has now changed its name to the Vacaville Rehabilitation and Care Center. Because our facility is in California and bears the name Creekside Convalescent Hospital, we are worried people will confuse us with the home you wrote about. We are in no way related to the former Creekside facility in Vacaville. GEORGIA OTTERSON, Administrator Creekside Convalescent Hospital Santa Rosa, Calif...