Word: petersons
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think he got framed," says Aarort T. Peterson '96. "I know there's plenty of evidence against him, but I couldn't see him killing anyone...
Yummy liked great big cars, Lincolns and Cadillacs, says Micaiah Peterson, 17. "He could drive real well. It was like a midget driving a luxury car." Sometimes he hung out at the local garage, learning about alternators and fuel injectors. When he wasn't stealing cars, he was throwing things at them or setting them on fire. "What could you do?" asks McClinton. "Tell his grandmother? She'd yell at him, and he'd be right back on the street. If the police picked him up, they'd just bring him back home because he was too young to lock...
...involve heavy doses of chemicals, evidence from laboratory studies suggests there are also effects at lower concentrations. Endocrinologist David Crews has discovered, for example, that small PCB doses can dramatically influence the ratio of male to female offspring in red-eared slider turtles. When University of Wisconsin toxicologist Richard Peterson investigated the impact of dioxin on male rats, he found that the dose needed to cause reproductive-system problems was relatively high. "But when we exposed pregnant rats to a dose 1/100th as large," he says, "we found the male offspring showed signs of reproductive dysfunction," including smaller sex organs...
What is especially disturbing about Peterson's work is that the levels of dioxin needed to do that kind of damage were as low as 64 nanograms per kg of body weight -- only a little greater than the 5 or 10 nanograms of dioxin and comparable chemicals found in a typical kilogram of human tissue. It is not surprising that these compounds are so biologically active, since they are metabolized in a fashion similar to natural chemicals. Says Linda Birnbaum of the EPA's Health Effects Research Laboratory, who was one of the driving forces behind the agency's decision...
...hurt me." -- Representative Collin Peterson (D-Minn.), same question...