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...first glance, it seems similar to the other children's games and kits that have been designed in response to the environmental boom. But the Envirco Pollution Test Kit, aimed at kids between the ages of eight and 14, is not intended for mere play. It enables youthful environmentalists to conduct real tests for air and water pollution, and even provides practical suggestions for fighting polluters...
Expected to sell for about $10 when it appears on store shelves this week, the kit consists of a blue plastic tray of diluted chemicals, four test tubes, five "dropping bottles," a funnel, magnifying glass, microscope slides, a smoke chart and parts for assembling a "smoke trap." One of the experiments described in the instruction booklet shows children how to test the effect of phosphates on algae by adding fertilizer to pond water in a jar; another calls for testing the acid or alkaline content of water in their home washing machine by putting five drops of a chemical (called...
...Kit Ryder calls himself "a 20th century faggot" and cruises the Strip, hustling for bread. Nancy Wheeler sits on a mattress and talks about the time she was shooting so heavily that two friends got off on her leavings. City Life keeps himself moving by pushing stuff he gets from a big-time dealer in a silver Mercedes. He is also an informer...
Malone's do-it-yourself encounter kit, which has just been put on the market for $29.95, consists of three LPs, five lesson plans and two workbooks-one for the husband, the other for the wife, It also includes two "feeling self mosaics" -jigsawed figures of a man and a woman divided into pieces labeled "ashamed," "anxious," "joyous," or just plain "sexual...
...University of New Mexico. Also an able economizer, Weiss saves most of his $1,500 pay to help finance his research trips. This week he leaves on his second expedition. Headed for a four-month stint in tiny Indian villages in Colombia and Nicaragua, he is taking a spectrographic kit, which he designed to measure the energy that foods produce. His concern is "human ecology": how communities obtain and use their food. Making no apologies for his work's lack of popular relevance, he says simply, "I am doing this because I enjoy...