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...altered. "The list of conditions that can cause this is fairly lengthy," says CDC Epidemiologist José Cordero. In Poland, it was discovered in 1967 that parents working in birth-control pill factories were inadvertently exposing their children to estrogen powder clinging to their clothes. Elsewhere, insecticides, including DDT, have been associated with the disorder. So far, however, the CDC has failed to uncover any link between the outbreak and Puerto Rican birth-control pill factories, which produce 90% of the U.S. supply. Investigation of meat and milk samples and other possible culprits continues. In the meantime...
...indirect benefits of conservation. Mankind could lose valuable but as yet unknown drugs from plants, the esthetic beauty of the gnarled Bristle Cone Pines and the majestic blue whales, and the companionship of our pets. Crass, short-term harvesting of whales to make a profit or use of DDT to save time, or polluting to cut costs--all these deprive us of natural novelties which once gone can never be creat#d again...
...Wafted by winds, hitchhiking on cars and campers, they slowly migrated to at least 21 states, including Florida and California, although so far only pockets of serious infestation have occurred west or south of West Virginia. In the 1950s, scientists thought they finally had the moths under control with DDT. But the pesticide caused so much ecological havoc, including the death of some of the birds and rodents that are the moth's natural enemies, that DDT has been banned from general...
...concept of organic evolution is, up to this point, the only idea that offers a rational basis for predicting the appearance of new varieties of life, such as DDT-proof mosquitoes and penicillin-resistant microorganisms...
...result, the poisons have turned up in surprising places. Not far from home plate at New York City's Shea Stadium, a festering pond containing PCB, toluene, benzene and DDT turns red, blue or green as the mixture of the waste changes. The mess is so flammable that the pool has caught fire twice in the past year. In the marshes around New Jersey's Meadowlands sports complex, home of the pro football Giants, some 200 tons of mercury residues have contaminated Berry's Creek, causing Selikoff to declare, "On a bad day, breathing in the Meadowlands...