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Poisonous Broth. More widespread than radioactive fallout, DDT is found in every kind of aquatic life and in almost every animal. Even mother's milk exhibits traces of DDT two or three times as high as the maximum standard for cow's milk set by the Food and Drug Administration. In any other container, a current quip has it, mother's milk would be prohibited from crossing state lines...
...resistance to water, DDT is easily soluble in fats and highly susceptible to "biological magnification" as it makes its way up the food chain. A typical case of this kind of metabolic mayhem occurred in Long Island Sound. After some mosquito-infested marshes were sprayed, the DDT was found in the nearby water in a "safe" concentration of .000003 parts per million. Nonetheless, the DDT quickly accumulated in more concentrated form...
...essential to the manufacture of calcium. Lacking adequate calcium, the bird's eggs emerge thin-shelled and flaky, offering scant protection for the embryo. In at least one instance, reports the National Audubon Society, which has just joined the public crusade against DDT, a bald-eagle egg was found on the shores of Lake Superior with no shell at all-just a fragile membrane. According to University of Wisconsin Ecologist Joseph Hickey, DDT has caused a disastrous decline in the population of the bald eagle, which is the U.S. national symbol-and the emblem of next week...
...microscopic sexual study, there is a remarkable dearth of information about the psychological impact of erotica on the normal?or more significant, ab normal?individual. A possible clue was offered by a commission of the Danish government appointed to study the incidence of sexual crimes; the commission found that such crimes had declined by 25% in the year in which antiobscenity laws on books had been abolished. After an intensive investigation of the relationship between eroticism on the screen and individual behavior, Sweden's censorship office reported unequivocally that no normal adult is harmed by seeing intercourse and nude bodies...
...customers without running any credit checks at all, while a bank in Chicago handed out cards to bystanders at a parade. A nationwide survey of 84 banks by Constantine Danellis and Richard N. Salle, two economists at California's San Jose State College, recently found that only 20% of the banks bothered to make credit checks. The economists also discovered that despite the profit potential of credit cards, many banks suffered bad losses. In all, 10% of the reporting banks lost between 17% and 40% of total charges during the first year of their credit-card business. Two-thirds...