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Lamar Miller

EPA to clean up Carter Carburetor site - St. Louis American: - 0 views

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Carter EPA site

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  • The EPA will remove PCBs and TCE from subsurface soils and remove PCBs in two on-site buildings.
  • “This clean-up is absolutely critical because so many children are potentially at- risk across the street at the Herbert Hoover Boys & Girls Club,” said U.S. Rep. Wm. Lacy Clay (D-MO).
  • the agency plans a thermally enhanced extraction of two toxins: trichloroethylene (TCE), a chlorinated industrial solvent, and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), a cancer-causing chemical once used in electrical transformers that were disassembled at a building on the site.
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  • The citizen advocacy group is calling for cleanup goals be expanded to cover all areas impacted by Carter Carburetor, the treatment technology to be proven to work on PCBs on similar sites and at similar concentrations before use at the St. Louis site, the risk assessment scenario expanded to include children of all ages and the cleanup plan protect the health of children and area residents.
  • Adeola Adewale on 15 Jun 11
     
    This article tells about the EPA's plans to clean up the Carter Carburetor site.
  • Lamar Miller on 30 Jun 11
     
    Plans
Becky Cook

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RATA exhibit group

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  • Becky Cook on 10 Jul 12
     
    Contact for children museum exhibits
Adeola Adewale

How old is too old to have a baby? - CNN.com - 0 views

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Old Pregnancy Fertility Treatment India

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  • Bhateri Devi, 66, gave birth to triplet after receiving fertility treatment
  • No upper age limit in India for those who want to have children using fertility treatments
  • Doctor Bishnoi Anurag says he's successfully impregnated a 70-year-old woma
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  • ritics question what happens to children when they grow older and parents die
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  • it is seemingly simple and has been around for more than 20 years.
  • Bhateri Devi is post-menopausal and has no more eggs. In her case Dr. Bishnoi says he fertilized a young woman's egg with sperm from Devi's husband in a Petri dish and then injected the fetus into his 66-year-old patient's uterus.
  • "Medically it is possible, but medically it is also possible to use the same technique in a pre-pubescent girl.--Dr. Sohani Verma
  • Before the procedure, patients have to take a few months of hormone treatment to prepare the body. This is known as in vitro fertilization, or IVF, a technique being used all over the world.
  • Adeola Adewale on 01 Jul 10
     
    This is a credible site because it is global site. They attribute a local scientistso its sort of like a BBC report.
Marquise Middleton

Egg In Tiny Doses Curbs Allergy - Science News - 0 views

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  • Marquise Middleton on 25 Jul 12
     
    Egg in tiny doses curbs allergy Consuming small amounts over months stops reactions in some kids Web edition : Wednesday, July 18th, 2012 Exposure to increasing amounts of egg every day over two years can seemingly rid some children of an egg allergy, a new study finds.
Tasha Dickerson

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  • Tasha Dickerson on 28 Jun 11
     
    Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) are a group of manmade chemicals. They are oily liquids
Gabrielle Gant

Popular TV shows teach children fame is most important value, psychologists report; Bei... - 0 views

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  • Gabrielle Gant on 14 Jul 11
     
    Fame is the No. 1 value emphasized by television shows popular with 9-11 year-olds -- a dramatic change in 10 years, psychologists report in a new study. From 1997 to 2007, being kind/helping others fell from 2 to 13, and tradition dropped from 4 to 15.
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