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Article: State ready to honor Carson: Biologist detailed pesticides' problems.
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- The Baltimore Sun (Baltimore, MD)
- Article date:
- March 4, 2007
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Byline: Candus Thomson
Mar. 4--Events honor environmentalist Carson One hundred years after her birth and nearly 45 years since publication of her environmental call to action, Silent Spring, Maryland is preparing to honor Rachel Louise Carson. "She's in the pantheon of environmental stars," said state Sen. Brian E. Frosh, who is sponsoring a bill to designate her May 27 birthday as Rachel Carson Day. "Of all the Marylanders who contributed to our well-being and the world's, she's up there." Silent Spring was more than a best-seller. The ground-breaking book made the connection between the indiscriminate use of pesticides, such as DDT, and the ...
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