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...UNITED STATES Chemicals Pledge President Bush sought to reverse his "anti-green" image by pledging to sign a global treaty restricting the use of a dozen toxic chemicals known as POPs. Most of the "persistent organic pollutants" are already banned in industrialized countries, but DDT and other pesticides linked to health problems are widely used elsewhere...
November 2004. Having reversed the nation's shortages of cyclamates, DDT and lead-based house paint, President Bush wins easy re-election, racking up huge pluralities among oncologists and people with three arms. Not to mention working beavers...
While the consensus favors a fat connection, other explanations haven't been ruled out. One is chemical pollution in the food chain--specifically, DDE, a breakdown product of the pesticide DDT, and PCBs, once used as flame retardants in electrical equipment. Both chemicals are plausible suspects because they mimic hormones that play a key role in the development of the reproductive system. Beyond that, says Dr. Walter Rogan, an epidemiologist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences in Research Triangle Park, N.C., both chemicals are ubiquitous in the environment, and they persist in the body for years after exposure...
...from poor, but instead started pushing the idea of creating more "digital opportunity" for developing countries. Reason: At Okinawa, they announced they were forming a new Digital Opportunity Task Force, or DOT Force (get it?) to coordinate government and private sector efforts. (Guess a Digital Divide Task Force, or DDT Force, sounds like an insecticide...
...panel members brought their own copies of Silent Spring, Carson's 1962 expose of the harms caused by the pesticide DDT...