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...been recalled in Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana, Kansas, Missouri and Oklahoma, and heptachlor traces have also turned up in beef. Last week the disaster took on a new dimension: tests showed low-level concentrations of heptachlor in the breast milk of some 70 Arkansas mothers. The women were among several thousand who brought samples of their breast milk to laboratories around the state. As more than 1,000 additional women clamored for tests, doctors tried to assess the risk of continued breast feeding. While the effects of the heptachlor have yet to be determined, nursing mothers face the unsettling prospect...
Twenty-three thousand Americans died last year in drunk driving accidents...
Unions from other areas of the New England plan to rally in support of the striking workers in Lynn this Saturday. Several thousand supporters are expected to attend the "Justice on the Job" demonstration, according to the strikers...
State Rep. Thomas M. Gallagher (D-Brighton), a DSA and trade union activist, said he has accepted more than $900 in PAC contributions. "For people like Jim Roosevelt to act like their friends who drop a thousand on them are not a special interest, but somehow a collection of labor money is, is hypocritical," Gallagher said...
Pink, pink, pink. She's always wearing pink or covering her room with pink things. Her room looks as if a thousand pink bears were shot expressly to outfit her with custom-dyed pink carpeting. There is pink in the bathroom; pink in the bed; pink in the lavatory; there is pink everywhere. It isn't the subtlest of imageries but it very usefully informs us of Mammi's preferences and proclivities...