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...total elimination of pesticide use, that is not a feasible goal. Organic farming, while on the increase, will probably never be able to satisfy the nation's produce needs; it now supplies perhaps 1% of the fruits and vegetables consumed in the U.S., and the prices are high for many budgets. It is more realistic to encourage alternative means of growing crops that rely less heavily on pesticide use. Integrated pest management, for example, releases insect predators into fields to help destroy pests and replaces regular chemical use with more judicious spraying...
...band's history may be pedestrian: Buck and Stipe met in the Athens record store where Buck worked; Berry and Mills, high school friends from Macon, Ga., fell in with the other two when they started school in Athens. Stipe's personal particulars (son of a nonmusical military family that moved a lot) may be unremarkable enough, which could account for his strenuous efforts to keep them from public consumption. But no band that makes music as spooky and splendid as Orange Crush and Hairshirt (two of Green's outstanding cuts) could ever be considered boring, not even potentially...
...most of us in the U.S., secret police and high-speed car chases are just the stuff of movies. But not to TIME's Eastern Europe bureau chief Kenneth Banta. They're sometimes a real part of the job of covering a bloc of nations not always known for their hospitality to the press. During one trip to Prague to attend a dissident conference, Banta and his translator were met at their hotel by a pair of dark sedans filled with secret police eager to dissuade the reporters from venturing out. Undaunted, Banta's translator gunned his small Czech-made...
Technology has a way of mocking history. When the framers of the Constitution provided Americans with the right to bear arms, they could hardly have imagined the development of high-powered semiautomatic weapons capable of firing more than 30 rounds in a clip. The slaughter last January of five Stockton, Calif., schoolchildren by a psychopath wielding an imitation AK-47 assault rifle awakened the public to the danger of these paramilitary weapons. Police have complained of being outgunned by drug dealers with Uzis and AR- 15s. Urban emergency rooms have started resembling MASH units, with doctors treating the sort...
...most widespread chemical danger in water is lead, which can cause high blood pressure, arm and leg pains, nausea and vomiting. Lead is especially hazardous to children, since it impairs the development of brain cells. The EPA estimates that at least 42 million Americans are exposed to unacceptably high levels of lead, and the U.S. Public Health Service says that perhaps 9 million children are at least slightly affected...