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...from scientists that the compound was neurotoxic, or capable of causing nerve damage in test animals. One report from Egypt linked the pesticide to the deaths of some 1,200 water buffalo, and a study from an EPA laboratory showed that it could cause leg weakness and paralysis in fowl. Yet it was not until 1975 that the agency acted to ban the import into the U.S. of foods containing any traces of leptophos...
...slinging packages and newspapers at rotting front steps in the nascent mountain morning, steering with his knee, one hand on the shift, one slinging, and two wheels off the ground. The radio, Hank Williams or Lefty Frizzell, turned all the way up: "Hunny jes LOW me nother chance, tooo fowl in luv with yoooo..." The man also ran moonshine in a beautiful super-charged '49 Merc, same style, until one misty pre-dawn 4 o' clock he came powersliding around Left-Hand Hill, head full of twanging country music and yellowjackets, to meet broadside the combine of an early-morning...
...colony's fabled hongs (trading companies) is struggling to avert financial collapse. The endangered hong is Hutchison International, Ltd., a conglomerate with a labyrinthine network of more than 350 subsidiaries and affiliates, including diamond merchants, earth movers, fashion boutiques and a mailorder business that deals in food, fowl and live animals...
...potentially dangerous" until the importer shows otherwise. But laboratories, zoos and the pet industry will not suffer unduly; the new rules award carte blanche visas to an elite of "low risk" animals. These include 400 kinds of fish (mostly tropical species for collectors), 60 birds (mainly game fowl), 43 mammals (lab monkeys, plus zebras, aardvarks and other common zoo animals), and two amphibians (the horned and dwarf-clawed frogs). The result will be less exotic selections in pet stores, but also fewer threats of disease and periodic invasions...
Folkman has done research on the tumor angiogenesis factor (IAF) which triggers blood flow release necessary for tumor growth, and Vallee has identified a link between a catalyst in the body and viruses known to cause leukemia in fowl...