Word: miceli
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...company hired two independent pa-thologists - John Rust of the University of Chicago and Paul Newberne of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - to examine the slides of liver tissues of mice that had eaten the pesticides...
...understand how the Government can complain about the delay in submitting two scientifically insignificant, incomplete readings when the authors of those readings have subsequently stated they were meaningless." Dr. Rust, one of the authors, told TIME last week that he found tumors and severe liver damage in the mice tested but no satisfactory proof that the pesticides were a cause of cancer. Still, he believes that his findings were alarming and should have been brought to the attention of the EPA. The EPA'S action against Velsicol is likely to be the first of several of its kind. Agency...
Second, most chemicals do not cause cancer in rats, mice, or other species, even when given in very large amounts over a lifetime. Further, with the possible exception of trivalent arsenic, all chemicals that have been shown to cause cancer in man are carcinogenic in rats or mice. Therefore, positive findings in an animal system must not be taken lightly...
...morning in 1972, Electric Guitar Maker Bob Brown, 50, found dozens of mice and rats sprawled dead in his workshop in San Diego. They had been zapped by vibrations from a nearby guitar that he had miswired and forgotten to turn off. Eureka, thought Brown, the better mousetrap! After further tinkering, he produced the AMIGO-an acronym for ants, mice and gophers. The football-size device emits electromagnetic waves that have no effect on people or domestic animals but upsets the small pests' neurological systems. They either flee or go into a trance-like state, refuse...
...speech that was to haunt him later, Teng declared that ideology came second to results: "For the purpose of increasing agricultural production, any by-hook-or-by-crook method can be applied. It doesn't matter whether a cat is black or white so long as it catches mice...