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...blood tests. Moreover, the diet and chemical testing relies solely on the patient's reporting, a subjective process open to self-fulfilling prophecies. Says Dr. Sheldon Spector of Denver's National Jewish Hospital: "If you're convinced your teeth are going to itch when you eat wheat, then they will itch." Despite the dispute, desperate sufferers are eager to try "ecological medicine." Says Randolph, who has been treating such patients for a quarter-century, the past five years at a 20-bed facility at American International Hospital in Zion, Ill.: "I keep the beds filled...
...President's Council on Environmental Quality, the report's sponsors, are preparing point-by-point rebuttals of Simon's article. One example: in contesting the report's projection that food prices will double by 2000. Simon displays a graph of the historical decline of wheat prices. Yet Simon offers no evidence that wheat prices are indicative of food prices in general...
...animal husbandry and agriculture. Under a contract with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Genentech is already working on a vaccine against hoof-and-mouth disease, which kills off millions of food-producing animals a year round the world. Geneticists also hope to endow such basic food plants as wheat, corn and rice with the ability to "fix'' or draw their own nitrogen from the air. At present, nitrogen must be provided in expensive fertilizers made from increasingly costly petroleum products. But scientists using plasmids have already cloned some of the nitrogen-fixing genes found in bacteria. And in an experiment...
This much is certain: oranges are freezing in Florida, winter wheat on the parched Midwestern plains is threatened by drought, schools are closed in Boston because of natural gas shortages, heatless New York City residents are being forced to seek shelter in municipally heated armories, and barges are running aground as the water level drops in the less-mighty-than-usual Mississippi. Anywhere one looked, it was too cold or too hot, and nearly everywhere...
...Midwest, temperatures were normal, but precipitation was not. The drought that plagued crops all last year is continuing, with little snow on the ground and low moisture content in the soil. Winter wheat needs the snow both for protection from cold and, come the spring thaw, for water. Even the Mississippi is hitting new low-water marks. The Army Corps of Engineers in Vicksburg has dredged the river at 18 locations this month. Still the river banks south of Memphis are a graveyard of grounded barges, and captains are lightening their loads by as much as a third to avoid...