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...Instead of a vitamin a day, Pest Control Executive Robert Loibl and his wife Louise start breakfast with a 10-mg. capsule of DDT. After 93 days on DDT, the North Hollywood, Calif., couple figured they had ingested as much of the pesticide (some 300 times more than the average daily intake) as persons consuming food dusted with the chemical would get in 83 years. "We feel better than we used to," crows Loibl. "In fact, I think my appetite has increased since I began taking...
...past six years, the ivy on a block of seven buildings north of the Yard has been left unsprayed, as an experiment to see whether nature could control pests better than chemicals. The study is now complete and indicates that after a few years unsprayed ivy can be as pest-free as sprayed...
Buildings and Grounds has been spraying the ivy to combat this normally rare pest for some 40 years. Several biologists thought that the insecticides had been killing the moth's parasites more than the moths themselves. The biologists then asked B and G to test their hypothesis by leaving several buildings unsprayed...
...distribution of "any" substance deemed hazardous to health or the environment. It would set standards for noise abatement, enforce new ones for strip mining, establish a national policy to curb ocean pollution, and crack down on pesticides. The most dangerous chemicals would reach the public only through Government-approved pest-control consultants...
...tiny coffeepot of a station that does not require the Moog Synthesizer or fancy arrangements may get its custom image for as little as $690, or perhaps a combination of cash and commercial time. P. & T. gets reimbursed by reselling those commercial minutes to such spot clients as Orkin pest control, Safeway supermarkets, or STP ("is the racer's edge...