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Loggers World 32, No. 10, p 35, available from 4206 Jackson Highway, Chehalis, WA 98532-8425, quotes a report in the Land Rights Letter concerning Dr. Paul Beier, a "wildlife ecologist'' at Northern Arizona State University.

Commenting to the New York Times over the California Ballot Proposition that would have lifted the strict protections on the state's mountain lions, Beier said, "But now we know that if we're going to have mountain lions around, maybe they're going to eat us now and then. I'm comfortable with that, but a lot of people may not be.'' Oregon forests were awash in cougars (mountain lions) before "ecological controls'' were instituted here. Now, so are our farms and rural neighborhoods. A large number of emus, a horse, and a group of pigs were killed in separate attacks by cougars recently on farms neighboring to ours. The cougars have lost much of their fear of humans and their nocturnal habits. The Robinson children have been chased from our fields several times in broad daylight by cougars.Once, we observed one eating a sheep at noon. Perhaps the cougars will develop a taste for ecologists before they start eating us.

"Is Your Kid on Drugs? The FDA Makes It Hard to Know'' in The Wall Street Journal, September 25, 1996, p A12, reports that David Kessler's Food and Drug Administration is blocking a home urine test for drugs. The FDA does not find the kit defective. They claim instead that families cannot be trusted to handle the results. The FDA also threatened a mail order company that performed drug tests on hair samples by claiming that the envelope used for mailing the hair to the lab was a medical device.

This is the same Dr. Kessler who is using the FDA to wage an election year regulatory war on cigarette companies because he claims to be concerned that children may take up smoking.

During a recent visit to our new local Barnes and Noble giant bookstore, I found long shelves of books for children that focus on colored pictures rather than text, over a hundred titles on Attention Deficit Disorder and Attention Deficit Hyperactive Disorder, and exactly one book on learning to read by phonics.

•	Human Bandwidth
•	POLITICALLY CORRECT GENOCIDE
•	ANALYSIS OF ERRORS
•	TECHNOLOGICAL DEFLATION
•	MAKING THE GRADE
•	RADIATION, CHILDREN, AND TAX MONEY
•	*STARK RAVING MAD*
•	GOOD READING

Vol. 24, No. 3

Newsletter: Access to Energy Newsletter Archive
Volume: Issues
Issue/No.: Vol. 24, No. 3

Date: October 01, 1996 01:04 PM (For actual publication date see newsletter.)
Title: Human Bandwidth