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...compact swing. Says he: "My strength comes from my wrists and legs. But then I bring my left shoulder back so that, all my momentum jumps out to the ball. It's like a rattlesnake ?he coils and then he springs out." Rice springs eternal: his force is lethal to pitchers, who admit that the rattlesnake swing is the most formidable in the big leagues...
...FEDERAL GOVERNMENT'S revelation last March that significant quantities of Mexican-grown marijuana entering the United States have been contaminated with the potentially lethal herbicide paraquat has sparked a nationwide controversy over the steps that should be taken to respond to the possible danger. Cambridge health officials and administrators took the initiative in responding to the problem and have thereby involved the city in a dispute with the state of Massachusetts over governmental jurisdiction. The city and its officials have already received a pledge from Harvard to supply technical staff to the city's proposed paraquat testing program--the bone...
...furor was set off last week by an incorrect front page report in the New York Times that Jimmy Carter had decided against production of the neutron bomb. For months U.S. diplomats had been trying to win NATO nations' support for the bomb on the ground that its lethal radiation would offset the Soviet Union's 3-to-l superiority in tanks in Central Europe. Now Carter seemed to have changed his mind despite the recommendations of his chief advisers on defense and diplomacy. All week long U.S. officials kept denying the Times report, insisting that...
Since 1973, the U.S. has funded the Mexican government's campaign to spray paraquat, a potentially lethal herbicide, on Mexican marijuana fields. The council's resolution aims at evaluating the amount of contaminated marijuana in the Cambridge area...
After performing post-mortems on the carcasses (which had carefully been preserved for further study), Jones and his colleagues learned that 20 of the birds had excessively high concentrations of dieldrin, a chemical kin of DDT, in their livers and brains. But use of the lethal insecticide is sharply restricted in Britain, as it is in the U.S. and other countries. So how did the owls pick up the poison...