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Topic: DDT

Dusting a broccoli seed bed, the speeding plane throws out a tail of insect-killing dust that gets underneath as well as on top of the small leaves. (Bettmann/Getty Images)

The toxic legacy of DDT

Andru Okun - Undark
A plane dusts 1,200 sheep against ticks with 10 per cent DDT powder, dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, on the Hoover ranch in Medford, Ore. in 1948. (AP Photo)

Long-banned DDT still poses health risks

Jamie Reno - Healthline
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GOP farm bill: Attack on public health

Amanda Marcotte

Viji Sundaram - New America Media
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A bedbug is displayed at the Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History in Washington. (AP/Carolyn Kaster)

The rise of the bedbugs

Lindsay Abrams
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Lindsay Abrams
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