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...Will the coyotes survive, the farm be freed from its toxic crop, the insects be allowed to regulate their own population balances? Did God make little green organic apples? Kingsolver doesn't bother much with suspense in unfolding these matters; right thinking may seldom triumph in the real world, but it's her novel and she'll run it the way she sees fit. Her heroines are genuinely interesting, however, even when they're patiently teaching lessons to the benighted, and the author sometimes pokes a little gentle fun at their high-mindedness. When Deanna laboriously captures a moth...
...mutual funds screen out politically incorrect companies. But more than anyone, Domini made ethical investing a mass-market option. Ten years ago, with two partners, she set up the Domini 400 Social Index, a benchmark for responsible portfolios. Its companies must pass muster on 140 issues, ranging from toxic-waste fines to diversity in top management. Yet Domini has kept pace with the S&P 500--a feat managed by fewer than a third of other mutual funds...
Unfortunately, some of the treatments for head lice are more dangerous than the bugs. Earlier this month, a Colorado schoolgirl suffered severe burns after she was treated with gasoline. Other remedies are highly toxic; lindane, used in some prescription remedies, has just been banned in California...
Obviously the greenhouse gases are going somewhere. How can people say that the rising temperatures in the Arctic are just a natural variation in climate? Hello! Do they think that toxic gases have absolutely no harmful effects on the environment? How can people ignore what they are doing to the earth? MARIANNA HAGBLOOM Christiansted, Virgin Islands...
...SAFE PESTICIDES Sometimes it's hard to tell what's worse: mosquitoes, which can carry disease, or DEET-based insect repellents, which can be toxic to children. Capitalizing on the growing interest in DEET-free alternatives, Biorganic Safety Brands has developed a line of ShooBug Repellents that it claims are safe for use around kids and pets. Using extracts of tree and plant oils--most notably cloves--the new products block a neurotransmitter receptor in bugs that doesn't exist in humans...