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...scientific supply house. The mice too turned out to be contaminated by dieldrin, although there was nothing in their standard pellets of food that could account for the poison's presence. Jones, however, did find that there was a potentially damaging concentration of dieldrin in the sawdust used as bedding in the rodents' cages. With all the fervor of a Baker Street Irregular, he then traced the suspect sawdust to a maker of wooden window frames. There, Jones found, the manufacturer had, quite legally, sprayed a wood preservative containing dieldrin on his lumber to protect it against infestations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Owl Caper | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

Death on the sawdust trail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: The Owl Caper | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...only people capable of understanding them. There may be some truth in that, but the fact is that a complex society tends to need complex laws ?ones that will effectively keep factories from polluting rivers, employers from discriminating against minorities, meat packers from stuffing sausages with sawdust. Besides, as Stanford Law Professor John Kaplan points out, "If you use an old form, something that is hard to read and is really antiquated, the chances are that it has already been interpreted by a court or two. You have legal decisions as to what precisely the words mean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Those | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

...pink jumpsuit to match her plane. The upper left wing of her next plane is already in her living-room workshop, and her twelve-year-old son vows to build his own before he turns 16. Says the Pink Baroness: "The orange shag carpet is full of sawdust. Building planes is a good excuse for not cleaning house...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: The Big Fly-In at Oshkosh | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

Show Biz. This kind of conversion is often associated with emotionalism, but Graham's advice is: "Don't depend on feelings for your assurance of salvation." The night* he walked the sawdust trail, Graham remembers, others were weeping, and since he was not, he wondered whether his commitment was genuine. Despite the exuberance of some new converts, however, Graham writes that being born again does not mean that "we will never have any problems. This isn't true, but we do have Someone to help us face our problems. The Christian life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Graham's New Sermon | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

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