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Harvard led all Eastern scorers with a total of 73 points. Princeton grabbed the 21st position with 59.5 points, Penn State took 33rd place (nine points) and Pittsburgh tied for 40th (two points...
...four, but what about Chile? Not much thought was given to the thousands of out-of-work Chileans whose families will have nothing at all to eat because two among millions of grapes were tainted. Fruit is Chile's second largest export after copper, making up about 10% of total export earnings, and the U.S. is Chile's main market. Two Chilean officials came to Washington on Wednesday to beg Secretary of State James Baker to reconsider the ban. In Chile hundreds of workers demonstrated. Trucks loaded with free fruit wound through the streets. Autos sprouted signs bearing the message...
...many different pesticides. "I may have Alar on my apples, lead arsenate on my grapefruit, captan on my vegetables," says Jay Feldman, national coordinator of the National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides. "Alone, each of them may constitute a negligible risk. But when you add them up, the total toxic burden is too high...
Although many people would like to see the total elimination of pesticide use, that is not a feasible goal. Organic farming, while on the increase, will probably never be able to satisfy the nation's produce needs; it now supplies perhaps 1% of the fruits and vegetables consumed in the U.S., and the prices are high for many budgets. It is more realistic to encourage alternative means of growing crops that rely less heavily on pesticide use. Integrated pest management, for example, releases insect predators into fields to help destroy pests and replaces regular chemical use with more judicious spraying...
...something of a feeding frenzy among some other newspapers. At week's end there were rampant reports that British authorities had identified those responsible for causing the explosion aboard Flight 103 and were on the verge of making an arrest. Those reports were dismissed by a government official as "total nonsense...