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...nine years since Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring first documented DDT's disastrous effects on animal life, environmentalists have carried on a determined campaign against the potent pesticide. The U.S. Government has responded to their efforts by restricting the use of DDT. Several states have gone even further, banning the chemical completely. But DDT still has its defenders. The World Health Organization, admittedly more concerned with public health than conservation, has warned that a ban on DDT spraying could doom worldwide malaria-eradication efforts, which in the past 25 years have freed more than 1 billion people...
...they have successfully separated the concept of violence from the idea of hurting people. I'm sure if Bonnie and Clyde were alive today, they'd have a poster of Che on their wall. Death and blood are no longer words that convey human suffering; they are potent political battle cries. Had I kept going, I am sure I would have killed somebody...
Nixon will face a momentous question: Will the economic and political gains from taking a hard line against the hardhats outweigh their potent enmity in the 1972 election? Having talked so much about the need for bargaining changes, the President would lose stature with other voters if he accepted a rebuff from the unions. Now that gradual withdrawal has defused Viet Nam as a political issue, Nixon no longer needs support from the construction workers as much as he once did. And it is becoming plainer every day that inflationary wage raises for the 4% of the labor force engaged...
...dark and fear. To check his conclusion, Ungar asked Wolfgang Parr, a University of Houston chemist, to duplicate scotophobin using only off-the-shelf chemicals. The synthetic variety differed slightly from the natural chemical produced in the brains of fear-induced rats, says Ungar, but it was still sufficiently potent to make nighttime cowards of most normal rats and mice...
...rest of the universe may still be in the grips of determinism, but in football, the charismatic, the unexpected, in a word Grace, is still present and potent...