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...villain, according to Sáenz and other Puerto Rican doctors, could be the local food-beef, chicken and that fundamental childhood staple, milk. These physicians suspect that meat and milk producers are unlawfully using estrogen and related compounds, including the federally banned carcinogen diethylstilbestrol (DES), to add heft to their animals. High consumption of such chemicals has been known to cause premature thelarche, and, say the doctors, when patients are withdrawn from the suspect foods, nearly all recover within six to eight months. The charges have triggered a spate of Government investigations, a volley of denials by the meat...
...local newspapers defending their products. To-Ricos, a poultry concern, helped arrange for a TV appearance by a U.S. Department of Agriculture meat inspector, who assured the public that it was safe to eat inspected local meat. At a legislative hearing, Salvador Pizarro, president of the Puerto Rican Farmers' Association, suggested that the estrogen controversy is a plot by food importers to destroy domestic production. Meanwhile, the milk industry has threatened to sue Sáenz and Pérez Comas...
Students from Movimiento Estudiantil Chicano de Aztlan a campus Chicano group, and Despierta Boricua (DB), Yales's Puerto Rican group, initially proposed the concentration...
...dark and gruesome in Jackson's journey through a night and day in the big city. The music itself is for the most part an upbeat and cheerful combination of Puerto Rican salsa rhythms, Jackson's jazzy piano overdubs, and some xylophone riffs like the catchy jingle that percussionist Sue Hadjopoulos repeats throughout the hit single "Steppin...
...period after the loss of the third world center battle also saw some confusion in the Puerto Rican student community, says Susan R. Morales '82, a founder of the Committee for Puerto Rican Student Concerns, which last year displaced La Organization, the long-standing Puerto Rican student group which Morales calls "not very functional." El Committee, as the group calls itself, has not been in the forefront of many political battles this year but has instituted a program of support for Puerto Rican students at Harvard. The group has concentrated on issues of academic and concentration counseling, Morales says, adding...