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...McDonough, Ga., nine-year-old Sean Green pierced his gums with an inch-long sewing needle buried in one of the Girl Scouts' Caramel Delights. A Chatham, Va., girl punctured her lip when she bit into a cookie containing a pin. At least 17 states, ranging from Maine to California, filed more than 80 reports of cookies contaminated with pins, needles and other metal objects. The FBI quickly joined the Food and Drug Administration in a nationwide investigation of the cookie tampering...
There is, unfortunately, no record to pin Hart down on. He has repeatedly said that he has never supported a federal gun control measure. But that is hardly a meaningful claim since the question has only reached the Senate floor twice--in 1968 and 1972--while Hart first reached Washington...
...experts were still not quite able to pin the blame on cholesterol, however. Explains Fred Mattson, a leading researcher at the University of California at San Diego, "We were missing a key piece of evidence: no one had ever shown that reducing the level of cholesterol in the blood did any good...
...film's protagonist, is a James Dean facsimile who struggles to win the heart of a supposedly wealthy schoolgirl, Caddie (Elizabeth McGovern), by leaving her flowers and playing tunes for her on the piano. When not occupied with thoughts of Caddie, Hopper--Nash's affectionate nickname--work as a pin boy at the local bowling alley, pals around with his high school buddy. Nick (Nick Cage) and romanticizes about going off to battle and blowing up Japs...
Still, most scientists agree that there is not nearly enough evidence to pin down the cause of the deterioration. Several possible suspects have been considered. Among them: insects, plant disease, poor soil condition and abnormal climatic changes. Experts note that the decline began about the time of the great Northeast drought of the early 1960s. "Drought is undoubtedly a major component of a large part of the decline," says Robert Rosenthal of the EPA. "But it doesn't explain it all. There is pretty good evidence that there are air pollution effects." Plant Pathologist Robert Bruck of North Carolina...