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...decades, the most widely used poison was a chemical known as Compound 1080. In 1972, however, the Environmental Protection Agency prohibited its use on the grounds that the chemical was not only decimating the coyote population but also destroying untold numbers of dogs, foxes, birds and other animals that happened to eat the tainted meat. Livestock herders, who expect that the Reagan Administration may be less concerned about those environmental considerations than its predecessors, are now asking the EPA to reverse the ban on Compound...
...Untold numbers of trees defoliated, stripped naked of all leaves. Squishy little creatures hanging from branches, crawling over the sides of houses, creating a sickly goo on roads. People rushing to their doctors with rashes on hands, faces, anywhere they may have brushed against the little pests. Neighbors arguing angrily about whether to resort to risky chemicals. Noisy town meetings. Anguished editorials in newspapers...
...reports that hid their prejudices behind clouds of turgid prose. They were, concluded Stockman, designed to discourage understanding. The cargo preference bill report in 1974 was a panegyric to the glories of forcing more oil imports into American ships. The inflationary impact from the higher rates was largely an untold story. Stockman unraveled it and alerted the Republicans. Though the bill passed, President Ford killed it with a pocket veto...
...novel (his first) and its characters are fiction. But his bitterness at the turn the paper has taken, especially the new sections, and at the end of the waterfront reporter tradition, still lingers. "Aside from the South Bronx, the decline of New York Harbor is the most important untold story in New York Cityy right now," White said over coffee at Tommy's Lunch...
...Mork from Ork. He had to cavort under the fierce Malta sun, wearing thick rubber arm pads to simulate the cartoon sailor's anvil forearms. He had to squint perpetually out of his left eye, speak in what he describes as a Liquid Wrench voice and consume untold quantities of canned spinach. Shelley Duvall's role as Olive Oyl was not much easier. "I had shin splints for weeks from those size-14, quintuple-A boots," she groans. Not to mention anvil forearms from toting Swee' Pea (Wesley Ivan Hurt) around and neck strain from craning...