Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...almost an entire year's production of young salmon in the Miramichi River. In this process, rain washes the DDT off the ground and into the plankton of lakes and streams. Fish eat the DDT-tainted plankton; the pesticide becomes concentrated in their bodies, and the original dose ultimately reaches multifold strength in fish-eating birds, which then often die or stop reproducing. DDT is almost certainly to blame for the alarming decrease in New England's once flourishing peregrine falcons, northern red-shouldered hawks and black-crowned night herons...
...Proof of deterioration of the health of cigarette smokers was established in this way. The evidence is strong for physiological, mental and social deterioration associated with prolonged use of marijuana. The argument that marijuana may be safe because there is a 10,000-fold range from the least effective dose to lethal levels, ignores the fact that accumulation of small injuries to mind and body, rather than sudden death, is the issue...
...evidence gathered by an all-woman team of researchers in Scotland now suggests, he may be a supermale, overaggressive and potentially criminal. Dr. Patricia A. Jacobs and her colleagues working at Western General Hospital in Edinburgh knew that a number of mentally defective men with a double dose of both sex chromosomes, or XXYY, had been found in Swedish and English institutions as criminals or hard-to-manage inmates.* This made the researchers wonder whether it was the extra Y that predisposed the men to aggression. They decided to check on simpler, XYY cases, previously seldom reported...
...risks that were worrying Okun-inflation at home and a threatened dollar abroad-last week prompted the Federal Reserve Board to give the nation its third dose in five months of some painful economic medicine: higher interest rates. The Reserve Board voted unanimously to raise its discount rate from 5% to 51%. That increase in the amount the Fed's district banks charge for borrowed funds applied initially to loans to member banks from the Federal Reserve banks of New York, Philadelphia and Minneapolis. The other nine reserve banks were expected to take similar action quickly...
...many men have written a great many books about Harvard. The fourth floor of Lamont Library is flooded with them--ranging from dull historical tracts which always end up imitating Samuel Eliot Morrison to mildly funny accounts of what it is like to be a Harvard man. A heavy dose of mediocre anthologies and lousy college novels falls in between. William Bentinck-Smith, a classmate and friend of Kahn's, described the situation accurately more than a decade ago when he wrote: "In almost the same proportion as Harvard men are no different from other men, so are Harvard writers...