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...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High consumption of such chemicals has been known to cause premature thelarche, and, say the doctors, when patients are withdrawn from the suspect foods, nearly all recover within six to eight months.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 and milk industries and public panic that led to a temporary 30% drop in chicken sales and a 5.5% decline in the island's consumption of milk...
Along with the rapid proliferation of factory outlets has come a spate of briskly selling guidebooks. These are designed to help budget-minded families and singles find the best bargains in their part of the country. In Maine, the government publicity bureau has, since spring, printed 10,000 copies of a guide to factory outlets in 50 cities and towns. "Traditional retailers have not positioned themselves in today's market, and they no longer know who their customers are," says Annie Moldafsky, an Illinois-based author of the Good Buy book, a consumer guide to factory outlets. "The manufacturers...
Clayton's lawyers sought to paint a picture of an Honor Committee concerned with a spate of bad publicity and under pressure to convict someone. In April 1979, The Daily Princetonian released a controversial poll which said that one-third of undergraduates had cheated on an exam...
...with My Harvard, My Yale, the newest of a recent spate of compilations of Harvard memoirs. Last spring saw the publication of Our Harvard, in which prominent alumni reflected on their Cambridge years. The Harvard Book (a new edition of an old high-school prize chestnut), and Sons of Harvard, which considered the undergraduate experience of gay alumni. This one's contribution to the literature is its inclusion of equal time from the competition: half the book (the second half, be assured) is given over to essays by ex-New Haven residents...
...Britain, where news of last week's military successes was greeted with increased national pride, the idea of losing seemed far, far away. Britons were basking in the afterglow of the historic papal visit, which lifted spirits everywhere, and enjoying a spate of warm, sunny weather. The Queen went to the Epsom derby and smiled. There was even good economic news: inflation dropped into the single digits for the first time since Thatcher took office...