Quote by Jeffrey Kluger
Toxins love to get you while youre young. Lead, mercury, secondhan

Toxins love to get you while youre young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when its mature and comparatively fixed. – Jeffrey Kluger

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Theres no one place a virus goes to die – but that doesnt make its demise any less a public health victory. Throughout human history, viral diseases have had their way with us, and for just as long, we have hunted them down and done our best to wipe them out. – Jeffrey Kluger

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Health
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There are a lot of downsides to being male. We age faster and die younger. But give us this: were lifetime baby-making machines. Womens reproductive abilities start to wane when theyre as young as 35. Men? Were good to go pretty much till were dead. – Jeffrey Kluger

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Age
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The death of anti-gay hate speech is no doubt being hastened by the head-spinning speed with which gays as a group – to say nothing of gay marriage – are becoming an unremarkable and even quite traditional parts of American life. – Jeffrey Kluger

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Death
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Other Quotes from
environmental
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American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. – Katherine Dunn

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environmental

If we gave up eating beef we would have roughly 20 to 30 times more land for food than we have now. – James Lovelock

Category:
environmental

We all recognize that in recent decades, many important achievements have helped create a cleaner, healthier environment, yet our national needs in environmental health are not being fully met. – Samuel Wilson

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environmental

We learned that economic growth and environmental protection can and should go hand in hand. – Christopher Dodd

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environmental

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Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets. – Yogi Berra

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The people who make art their business are mostly imposters. – Pablo Picasso

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Journalism consists largely in saying Lord James is dead to people who never knew Lord James was alive. – G. K. Chesterton

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I enjoy the Web site a lot and I like being able to talk to my readers. Ive always had a very close relationship with them. – Anne Rice

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