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"...sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight?" (4)

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"...and so they sent in the planes on their mission of death" (paragraph 1)

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"'...parathion treated areas constitute a potential hazard to humans, domestic animals, and wildlife."'(1)

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"There is a growing trend toward aerial applications of such deadly poisons as parathion to 'control' concentrations of birds distasteful to farmers."(paragraph 1)

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"Yet at so fearful a risk to the farmers, with none to hinder them, waged their needless war on blackbirds." (3)

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"In 1962 the noted Rachel Carson published Silent Spring..." (Introduction)

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"...this ever widening wave of death that spreads out, like ripples when a pebble is dropped into a pond?"(paragraph 4)

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"...doomed by a judge and jury who neither knew of their existence nor cared." (2)

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"the pitiful heaps of many-hued feathers, the lifeless remains of the birds that fell before the unselective bludgeon of insecticide poisons" (4)

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¨Who kept vigilant watch to tel the innocent stroller that the fields he was about to enter were deadly-all their vegetation coated with a lethal film?¨(Paragraph 3)

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"...the pitiful heaps of many-hued feathers, the lifeless remains of the birds that fell before the unselective bludgeon of insecticidal poisons?" (Paragraph 4)

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"Planes on their mission of death" (Paragraph 1)

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"...this ever-widening wave of death that spreads out, like ripples when a pebble is dropped into a still pond" (Paragraph 4)

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"In 1962 the noted biologist Rachel Carson published Silent Spring..." (Introduction)

"The Fish and Wildlife Service has found it necessary to express serious concern over this trend..." (1)

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"Who has made the decision... Who has placed in one pan... Who has decided..." (paragraph 4)

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"If so, who guarded the poisoned area to keep out any who might wader in, in misguided search for unspoiled nature?" (paragraph 3)

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"Parathion is not a specific for blackbirds: it is a universal killer."(paragraph 2)

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¨...workers handling foliage that had been treated a month earlier collapsed and went into shock, and escaped death only through skilled medical attention.¨ (3)

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"The results probably graffitied the farmers, for the causality list included some 65,000 red-winged blackbirds and starlings" (paragraph 2)

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"...the pitiful heaps of many-hued feathers, the lifeless remains of the birds that fell before the unselective bludgeon of insecticidal poisons?" (4)

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"In California orchards sprayed with this same parathion, workers handling foliage that had been treated a month earlier collapsed and went into shock and only escaped death through skilled medical attention." (P.3)

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"...that sets in motion these chains of poisonings, this ever-widening wave of death..."(4)

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"...were doomed by a judge and jury who neither knew of their existence nor cared." (Paragraph 2)

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"The problem could have been solved easily by a slight change in agricultural practice- a shift to a variety of corn with deep-set ears not accessible to the birds- but the farmers had been persuaded of the merits of killing poison, and so they sent in the planes on their missions of death." (Paragraph 1) Syntax: long, flowing sentences.

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"The result probably gratified the farmers, for the casualty list included some 65,000 red-winged blackbirds and starlings." (Paragraph 1)

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"Yet so fearful a risk the farmers, with nne to hinder them, waged their needless war on blackbirds" (Paragraph 3)

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"Does Indiana still raise any boys who roam through woods or fields and might even explore the margins of a river?" (paragraph 3)

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¨...the lifeless remains of birds that fell before the unselective bludgeon of insecticidal poisons?¨ (Paragraph 4)

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"Yet at so fearful a risk the farmers, with none to hinder them; waged their needless war on blackbirds."(paragraph 3)

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"such rabbits or raccoons or opossums as may have roamed those bottomlands and perhaps never visited the farmers' cornfields were doomed by a judge and jury who neither knew of their existence nor cared." (2)

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¨Who kept vigilant watch to tell the innocent stroller that the fields he was about to enter were deadly- all their vegetation coated with a lethal film?" (3)

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"There is a growing trend toward aerial applications of such deadly poisons as parathion to "control" concentrations of birds distasteful to farmers" (Paragraph 1)

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"...a growing trend toward aerial applications...parathion to 'control' concentrations" (paragraph 1)

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"...unnoticed and unrecorded..." (paragraph 2)

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"Who has made the decision that sets in motion these chains of poisonings, this ever-widening wave of death that spreads out, like ripples when a pebble is dropped into a pond?" (P.4)

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"Who has made the decision...Who has placed...Who has decided..."(paragraph 4)

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"What other wildlife deaths may have gone unnoticed and unrecorded is not known."(2)

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"...doomed by a judge and jury who neither knew of their existence nor cared." (2)

"...but the farmers had been persuaded of the merits of killing by poison, and so they sent in the planes on their mission of death."(1)

"Who has placed in one pan of the scales the leaves that might have been eaten by the beetles and in the other the pitiful heap of many-hued feathers, the lifeless remains of the birds that fell before the unselective bludgeon of insecticidal poisons."(4)

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" Does Indiana still raise any boys who roam through woods or fields and might even explore the margins of a river? If so, who guarded the poisoned area to keep out any who might wander in" (Paragraph 3)

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"they sent in the planes on their mission of death."(paragraph 1)

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"...these chains of poisonings, this ever-widening wave of death that spreads out, like ripples when a pebble is dropped into a still pond?" (4)

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"The results probably gratified the farmers, for the casualty list included some 65,000 red-winged blackbirds and starlings"

(paragraph 2)

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"...who guarded the poisoned area to keep out any that might wander in, in misguided search for unspoiled nature?" (paragraph 3)

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"Who has made the decision that sets in motion these chains of poisonings, this ever-widening wave of death that spreads out, like ripples when a pebble is dropped into a still pond?" (Paragraph 4)

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"In California orchards sprayed with this same parathion, workers handling foliage that had been treated a month earlier collapsed and went into shock, and escaped death only though skilled medical attention." (3) (C&E)

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"doomed by a judge and jury who neither knew of their existence nor cared." (paragraph 2)

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The results probably gratified the farmers , for the casualty list included some 65,000 red-winged blackbirds and starlings. (paragraph 2)

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The results probably gratified the farmers , for the casualty list included some 65,000 red-winged blackbirds and starlings. (paragraph 2)

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"In California orchards sprayed with this same parathion, workers handling foliage that had been treated a month earlier collapsed and went into shock..." (Paragraph 3)

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"Does Indiana still raise any boys who roam through woods or fields and might even explore the margins of a river?" (Paragraph 3)

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"But such rabbits or raccoons or opossums as may have roamed those bottom lands and perhaps never visited the farmers' cornfields were doomed by a judge and jury who neither knew of their existence nor cared." (paragraph 2)

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"The resort to 'eradicating' any creature that may annoy or inconvenience us." (1)

"But the farmers had been persuaded of the merits of killing by poison, and so they sent in the planes on their mission of death." (1)

"But such rabbits or raccoons or opossums as may have roamed those bottom lands and perhaps never visited the farmers' cornfields were doomed by a judge and jury who neither knew of their existence or cared" (2)

"The decision is that of the authoritarian temporarily entrusted with power; he has made it during a moment of inattention by millions to whom beauty and the ordered world of nature still have a meaning that is deep and imperative." (4)

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"Yet at so fearful a risk the farmers, with none to hinder them, waged their needless war on blackbirds." (3)

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¨But such rabbits or raccoons or opossums as may have roamed these bottomlands and perhaps never visited farmers' cornfields were doomed by a judge and jury who neither knew of their existence nor cared¨(Paragraph 2)

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"The decision is that of the authoritarian temporarily entrusted with power, he has made it during a moment of inattention by millions to whom beauty and the ordered world of nature still have a meaning that is deep and imperative." (P.4)

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"In southern Indiana, for example, a group of farmers went together in the summer of 1959 to engage a spray plane to treat an area of river bottom land with parathion"

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"And what of human beings?" (paragraph 3)

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"In California orchards sprayed with the same parathion, workers handling foliage that had been treated a month earlier collapsed and went into shock, and escaped only through skilled medical attention." (Paragraph 3)

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"The lifeless remains of birds that fell before the unselective bludgeon of insecticidal poisons" (Paragraph 4)

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"Who has decided - who has the right to decide - for the countless legions of people who were not consulted that the supreme value is a world without insects, even though it be also a sterile world ungraced by the curving wings of a bird in flight?"(paragraph 4)

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"The results probably gratified the farmers, for the casualty list included some 65,000 red-winged blackbirds and starlings" (Paragraph 2)

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"Who has made the decision to set in motion these chains of poisonings..." (Paragraph 4)

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"Who has decided - who has the right to decide - for the countless legions of people who were not consulted that the supreme value is a world without insects, even though it be also a sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight?"(4)

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"...pitiful heaps of many-hued feathers..."(paragraph 4)

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"And what of human beings? In California orchards sprayed with this same parathion, workers handling foliage that had been treated a mother earlier collapsed and went into shock." (Paragraph 3)

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"And what of human beings? In California orchards sprayed with this same parathion, workers handling foliage that had been treated a mother earlier collapsed and went into shock." (Paragraph 3)

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"But such rabbits or raccoons or opossums as may have roamed those bottom lands and perhaps never visited the farmers' cornfeilds were doomed by a judge and jury who neither knew of their existence or cared."(paragraph 2)

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"...doomed by a judge and jury who neither knew of their existance nor cared." (Paragraph 2)

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"Who has made the decision that sets in motion these chains of poisonings, this ever-widening wave of death..." (4)

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"...but the farmers had been persuaded of the merits of killing by poison, and so they sent in the planes on their mission of death." (Paragraph 1)

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"...this ever-widening wave of death..."

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"...even though it be also a sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight?"(4)

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"but the farmers had been persuaded of the merits of killing by poison, and so they sent in the planes on their mission of death." (P.1)

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"Who kept vigilant watch to tell the innocent stroller that the fields he was about to enter were deadly—all their vegetation coated with a lethal film?" (3)

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"In 1962 the noted biologist Rachel Carson published silent spring, a book that helped transform American attitudes toward the environment" (Intro)

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"... but farmers had been persuaded of the merits of killing by poison, and so they sent in the planes on their mission of death."(1)

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"The Fish and Wildlife Service has found it necessary to express serious concern over this trend..." (Paragraph 1)

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"Fish and Wildlife Service has found it necessary to express serious concern over this trend." (Paragraph 1)

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"Who has placed in one pan of the scales the leaves that might have been eaten by the beetles and in the other pitiful heaps of many-hued feathers..." (paragraph 4)

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"Who has decided-who has the right to decide-for countless legions of people who were not consulted that the supreme value is a world without insects, even though it be also a sterile world ungraced by the curving wing of a bird in flight?" (Paragraph 4)

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"...who has decided-who has the right to decide- for the countless legions of people who were not consulted that the supreme value is a world without insects...The decision is that of the authoritarian temporarily entrusted with power..." (paragraph 4)

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"In California orchards sprayed with this same parathion, workers handling foliage that had been treated a month earlier collapsed and went into shock, and escaped death only though skilled medical attention." (paragraph 3)

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"But such rabbits or raccoons or opossums as may have roamed those bottomlands and perhaps never visited the farmers' cornfields were doomed by a judge and jury who neither knew of their existence or cared" (paragraph 2)

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"Who has placed in one pan of the scales the leaves that might have been eaten by the beetles and in the other the pitiful heaps of many-hued feathers." (Paragraph 4)

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"Who has placed in one pan of the scales the leaves that might have been eaten by the beetles and in the other the pitiful heaps of many-hued feathers." (Paragraph 4)

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"...Carson abused, twisted, and distorted many of the studies that she sited..." (paragraph 1)

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¨In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the average American could be expected to ingest DDT in food and drink at levels of around 30 micrograms per day." (2)

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"...have failed to show any 'convincing evidence of patterns of associations between DDT and cancer incidence or mortality,' according to the World Health Organization." (2)

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¨The thousands of individuals in these studies were regularly exposed to hundreds or perhaps thousands of times the amount of DDT that the average American would have been exposed to, but cancer rates seem not to have been elevated.¨(2)

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"...the U.S. government reported in 2002 that 'there is no clear evidence that exposure to DDT/DDE causes cancer in humans.'" (4)

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"But, as a result of the mendacity and actions of Carson, Ruckelshaus, Wurster, Ehrlich, and their allies, DDT has been banned, and hundred of millions of people who might have lived to enjoy those oceans, to sail on them, fish in them, surf in them, or swim in them, to play on their beaches or write poems about their sunsets, are dead." (paragraph 16)

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"For the record, 1979 has come and gone, and life in the world's oceans has continued to flourish gloriously."(16)

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"However, the maximum solubility of DDT in seawater is only 1.2 ppb, nowhere near 500 ppb."(13)

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"Summarizing all of the relevant research, the U.S. government reported in 2002 that 'there is no clear evidence that exposure of the DDT /DDE causes cancer in humans.'" (4)

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"An examination of actual data, however, thoroughly debunks Carson's claim." (paragraph 7)

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"...Carson abused, twisted, and distorted many of the studies that she cited, in a brazen act of scientific dishonesty." (1)

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¨There is scientific evidence that ingesting DDT or its byproduct DDE can cause mice to develop tumors, but only if they are fed at least ten times the amount per day (by body weight) that a person would normally expect to ingest.¨ (3)

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"And the annual data from the North American Breeding Bird Survey from 1966...through the end of the 1970s shows no obvious pattern of overall increasing bird populations as would be expected..." (9)

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"...DDT has been banned, and hundreds of millions of people who might have lived to enjoy those oceans...are dead."(16)

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"...which compares the Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count data for 1941...to that of 1960..." (7)

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¨This can be seen in Table 1, which compares the Audubon Society’s Christmas

Bird Count data for 1941 (before DDT) to that of 1960 (the height of DDT, shortly before the publication of Silent Spring).¨ (6 table & 7)

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"Carson abused, twisted, and distorted many of the studies that she cited, in a braze act of scientific dishonesty. " (1)