First Lady Laura Bush Visits Africa

DDT was used by the US Army in Italy during WWII to douse children and others to kill body lice. Has there ever been a followup study of those citizens (i.e., it might explain why the "yellowcake" "document" came from there)? Some of the first studies of its harmful effects, the thinning of bird eggshells, causing whole "clutches" to shatter before they could hatch, was on the former "armed to the teeth" Great Gull Island just off the federal animal disease control center, Plum Island (in the midst of 40 million people its sometimes argued, Rome, NY would be a better location) where it's said we fought one of the first battles with the British military in the revolution. Great Gull is now owned by the Museum of Natural History I thought I read. Little Gull Island has the lighthouse. Ospreys out there have made a slow recovery with the removal of DDT from agricultural practices I thought I read or heard from the former heir to Gardiners Island, his great-aunt and first lady, Julia Gardiner Tyler, Robert Gardiner once candidate and anti-DDT at the levels it was once used. Former President Tyler was in charge of Richmond, VA during the civil war. She's sometimes described as instrumental in getting Texas into the Union and the "prettiest" of First Ladies. Reply#1 - Thu Jun 28, 2007 2:50 PM EDT

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