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...1980s, Colborn learned, mortality rates for alligator eggs in Lake Apopka, Florida, soared to 96%, in contrast to 57% in most Florida lakes. The almost certain cause: a 1980 chemical spill that included DDT. In 1993 researchers found that terns in PCB-contaminated Buzzard's Bay, Massachusetts, had reproductive-tract abnormalities including the presence of ovarian cells in male birds. Earlier studies had found similar problems with birds in California and the upper Midwest...
...sperm unite, an ancient and astonishingly intricate ballet unfolds. The still microscopic sphere divides into two, then four, then eight parts. Soon after, individual cells begin an extraordinary trek across this globe of living matter. Some dive deep into the core, where < they give rise to the intestinal tract. Others bunch along the surface, forming a hollow tube -- one end of which buds into a brain. Somehow every cell knows its place and fulfills its destinyas heart, bone, blood and sinew weave together into a single, organic whole...
...forces arrayed against this threat are minuscule. There are an estimated 7,200 state and federal wildlife agents, 200 of which are U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service special agents, sprinkled over approximately 750,000 sq. mi. of parks. At Yellowstone National Park, 60 full-time rangers patrol a tract larger than Rhode Island and Delaware combined. Says chief ranger Dan Sholly: "For every poacher we catch, there are 30 to 50 incidents that we don't even see." Adds Grosz: "Some days I figure I have Custer's odds." He has only 24 agents to juggle law enforcement with other...
...strong advocate of the death penalty but that he is now troubled and undecided. He may have written himself into this state of uncertainty with his grim and impressive new novel, The Chamber (Doubleday; 486 pages; $24.95). That's the feel of the book; it's not a tract in fictional form but a work produced by painful writhing over a terrible paradox: vengeance may be justified, but killing is a shameful, demeaning response to evil...
...years), but the recently logged areas look as if they had been fought over by an armored division. This is a tree farm, not a forest; viable commercially but useless to creatures who had lived here. Congressman Hamburg wants the government to buy the combined 44,000-acre tract, old growth and new, from Pacific Lumber...