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Article: EDITORIAL: Was Rachel Carson wrong?(Editorial)
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- Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL)
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- May 27, 2007
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May 27--Rachel Carson, the naturalist whose landmark book, "Silent Spring," is credited with launching the global environmental movement, halting the indiscriminate use of pesticides in the United States and saving the bald eagle, would have turned 100 on Sunday. To mark the occasion, her former employer, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, is hosting birthday events around the country. The U.S. House of Representatives voted to name a post office after Carson in her hometown of Springdale, Pa. And Sen. Benjamin Cardin (D-Md.) drafted a resolution celebrating her "legacy of scientific rigor coupled with poetic sensibility."
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