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	NRDC: The Story of Silent Spring
		Thirteen years later, in 1958, Carson's interest in writing about the dangers of DDT was rekindled when she received a letter from a friend in Massachusetts bemoaning the large bird kills which had occured on Cape Cod as the result of DDT sprayings.
		By 1958 Carson was a best-selling author, and the fact that she could not obtain a magazine assignment to write about DDT is indicative of how heretical and controversial her views on the subject must have seemed.
		Rachel Carson had made a radical proposal: that, at times, technological progress is so fundamentally at odds with natural processes that it must be curtailed.
	www.nrdc.org /health/pesticides/hcarson.asp (1161 words)

	Rachel Carson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rachel Carson was born in 1907 on a small family farm in the Pittsburgh suburb of Springdale.
		Carson took on that responsibility alongside the continuing one of caring for her mother, who was almost 90 by this time.
		Carson explored the theme of environmental connectedness: although a pesticide is aimed at eliminating one organism, its effects are felt throughout the food chain, and what was intended to poison an insect ends up poisoning larger animals and humans.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rachel_Carson (1903 words)

	Brainboost - What did Rachel Carson die of
		Rachel Carson died of breast cancer two years after Silent Spring was published; before the ban on DDT, the founding of the Environmental Protection Agency or the rise of environmentalism - all directly attributed to her work.
		When author and marine biologist Rachel Carson died of breast cancer in 1964, at the age of 56, she left a substantial bequest to the Sierra Club that included royalties from sales of Silent Spring, the landmark book that exposed the ecological and health hazards of DDT and other chemical pesticides.
		Rachel Carson died of breast cancer in 1964 in the midst of defending Silent Spring.
	www.brainboost.com /search.asp?Q=What+did+Rachel+Carson+die+of&lfmq=1 (807 words)

	Rachel Carson .org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Carson graduated from Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatham College) in 1929, studied at the Woods Hole Marine Biological Laboratory, and received her MA in zoology from Johns Hopkins University in 1932.
		Embedded within all of Carson's writing was the view that human beings were but one part of nature distinguished primarily by their power to alter it, in some cases irreversibly.
		Carson was attacked by the chemical industry and some in government as an alarmist, but courageously spoke out to remind us that we are a vulnerable part of the natural world subject to the same damage as the rest of the ecosystem.
	www.rachelcarson.org /index.cfm?fuseaction=bio (551 words)

	Rachel Carson
		Rachel Carson is giving the birds in her yard a nice meal free from pesticides..
		Rachel Carson was born in 1907 and grew up in a small town near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
		Rachel Carson had hardships trying to pay for her education but she became a great marine biologist.
	www.sbac.edu /~morrisjw/1960-69/RachelCarsonEnvironmental/index.html (146 words)

	Rachel Carson
		Rachel Carson, 1907-1964, spent most of her professional life as a marine biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
		When Rachel Carson died, in the spring of 1964, it was becoming clear that her voice would never be silenced.
		Rachel carson showed that the excessive use of pesticides was inconsistent with basic values; that at their worst, they create what she called "rivers of death," and at their best, they cause mild harm for relatively little long-term gain.
	clinton2.nara.gov /WH/EOP/OVP/24hours/carson.html (3460 words)

	Rachel Carson
		Rachel imitated it in one of her most delightful college themes and returned to the animal adventure again and again as an adult.
		Rachel was so taken by his account of the bravery of the aviator that she retold the story in her own words for the St. Nicholas League.
		Rachel's essay, entitled "Intellectual Dissipation," was a solemn and somewhat pedantic discourse in which she displayed an abhorrence of mental and moral sloth.
	partners.nytimes.com /books/first/l/lear-carson.html (7512 words)

	Rachel Carson \| EPA History \| US EPA
		Moreover, Rachel Carson, for all her craving for privacy, was never free to act utterly independently.
		Carson's stature grew in succeeding years with the re-publication of Under the Sea-Wind and the writing of a new book, The Edge of the Sea.
		It became apparent after a while that many kinds of animals besides insects were affected by the chemicals, and, as Carson realized, no one had any idea of their ultimate effect on the foundations of life itself.
	www.epa.gov /history/topics/perspect/carson.htm (1945 words)

	Rachel Carson and the Awakening of Environmental Consciousness, Wilderness and American Identity, Nature Transformed, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In Silent Spring Carson argued that humankind was fatally tampering with nature by its reckless misuse of chemical pesticides, particularly the ubiquitous new wonder chemical DDT (dichloro-diphenyl-trichloro-ethane).
		When Carson died just eighteen months later in 1964, she had set in motion a course of events which would result in banning the domestic production of DDT by 1972 and create a grassroots movement to ensure the protection of the environment through state and federal regulation.
		Most importantly, Carson's writing and her courageous witness helped transform the relationship between humans and the natural world and led to an awakening of public environmental consciousness.
	www.nhc.rtp.nc.us:8080 /tserve/nattrans/ntwilderness/essays/carson.htm (663 words)

	Rachel Carson
		The name Rachel Carson may not sound familiar, but because of her, there are flowers in bloom, fish in the streams, and birds in the sky.
		Rachel Carson was born in 1907 and lived in a farm town called Springdale, located in Pennsylvania.
		Rachel Carson never wanted to fight viciously for what she believed, but rather educate people and let them discover what was happening to the world.
	www.wc.pdx.edu /rachelcarson/rachelcarson.html (417 words)

	RACHEL CARSON, PENNSYLVANIA BIOGRAPHIES
		Rachel Louise Carson was born in Springdale, PA, on May 27, 1907, and died on April 14, 1964.
		Carson took a job with the Bureau of Fisheries (later the Fish and Wildlife Services) in Washington instead of the career in research that she had wanted, achieving the title of chief of publications.
		Carson is remembered so much for her work on that book that perhaps, sadly, she will be forgotten as one of the greatest nature writers of the United States.
	www.geocities.com /Heartland/4547/carson.html (764 words)

	Silent Spring - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Carson accused the chemical industry of spreading disinformation, and public officials of accepting industry claims uncritically.
		Carson had made it clear she was not advocating the banning or complete withdrawal of helpful pesticides, but was instead encouraging responsible and carefully managed use, with an awareness of the chemicals' impact on the entire ecosystem.
		One of Carson's claims was that DDT is a carcinogen.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Silent_Spring (1256 words)

	Rachel Carson
		Rachel Carson had a summer house built in Maine near the home of Dorothy Freeman and her husband and son.
		Rachel Carson, author and environmentalist, played a major role in raising the public consciousness to the plight of sea birds and their fast disappearing habitat - the vital coastal marshes and wetlands.
		Undaunted, Rachel Carson endured such attacks with a dignity, strength of conviction, and moral courage alien to her opponents.
	www.queertheory.com /histories/c/carson_rachel.htm (1095 words)

	News release: A Sense of Wonder, Rachel Carson Portrayal
		Rachel Carson (1907-1964), a writer, editor, biologist, and ecologist, was a great force behind the modern environmental movement.
		In failing health, Carson is reluctantly packing to return to Maryland where she will face the storm of controversy surrounding the newly published Silent Spring.
		The Rachel Carson Refuge, headquartered in Wells, was dedicated in 1970 to the memory of Rachel Carson, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service employee, author, and environmental advocate.
	www.wellsreserve.org /news/2003-06-25_carson.htm (449 words)

	EO Library: Rachel Carson
		Rachel Carson's passionate plea for restraint, common sense, and stewardship resulted in fundamental changes not only in North America, but also throughout the world.
		Rachel Carson was born in 1907 in Springdale, Pennsylvania—a long way from the coast.
		Carson chose English as her major at Pennsylvania College for Women (now Chatam College), and she submitted poetry to magazines, although none was published.
	earthobservatory.nasa.gov /Library/Giants/Carson (556 words)

	Rachel Carson
		Rachel Carson was born in Springdale, Pennsylvania on May 27, 1907 and grew up in her birthtown of Springdale.
		During World War II, Rachel changed her interest from marine biology and the seas to pesticides, feeling as if the use of synthetic chemical pesticides in the war was wrong.
		Rachel died in Silver Spring, Maryland on April 14, 1964 after a lengthy battle with breast cancer.
	www.angelfire.com /anime2/100import/carson.html (284 words)

	Rachel Carson: Preserving a Sense of Wonder Books
		Rachel Carson was best known for her book "Silent Spring": her ideas were adopted by environmentalists around the world and fostered many changes and improvements.
		Carson's life is profiled in Rachel Carson: Preserving A Sense Of Wonder, a picturebook biography offering color reproductions of painted landscapes by Thomas Locker to pair with a survey of her life.
		Rachel Carson's most famous book was "Silent Screen," which was translated into more than fifteen foreign languages and is considered the most influential book of the past fifty years.
	www.contesthound.com /books.cgi?item_id=1555914829&search_type=AsinSearch&templates=1&locale=us (234 words)

	Rachel Carson Biography
		Rachel Carson was with the Bureau of Fisheries for fifteen years.
		Her research and studies led Rachel Carson to an understanding of the dangers of pesticides on nature and the environment.
		Rachel Carson was strongly challenged by the chemical industry, which still today attempts to discredit her.
	www.online-study-guide.com /history/women-womens/rachel-carson/life-bio-biography.html (455 words)

	Rachel Carson: A Woman Pioneering the Future (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Carson, a renowned nature author and a former marine biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, had grown up with an enthusiasm for nature matched only by her love of writing and poetry.
		Rachel's interest in the dangers of DDT was rekindled in 1958, by a letter from a friend in Massachusetts bemoaning the number of large birds dying on Cape Code as a result of DDT sprayings.
		Rachel Carson was one of the most significant people of the 20th century.
	www.nwhp.org /tlp/biographies/carson/carson-bio.html (560 words)

	Fish and Wildlife Service
		A Fish and Wildlife Service National Wildlife Refuge near Carson's summer home was renamed the Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge (shown in photo at left) in 1969 to honor the memory of this extraordinary woman.
		Rachel Carson was born in a small rural Pennsylvania community near the Allegheny River, where she spent a great deal of time exploring the forests and streams around her 65-acre farm.
		Carson once said that "man's endeavors to control nature by his powers to alter and to destroy would inevitably evolve into a war against himself, a war he would lose unless he came to terms with nature." She died from cancer in 1964 at the age of 57.
	www.fws.gov /rachelcarson (1619 words)

	Rachel Carson
		Carson also criticized industrial society for abusing the natural environment and failing to recognize the threat to industry's own existence when natural processes are seriously disturbed.
		But Carson's gripping accounts of ecological disasters were based on a meticulous search and use of scientific literature, and her conclusions were upheld by President John F. Kennedy's Science Advisory Committee, among other authorities.
		Carson, who was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1957, lived only two years after Silent Spring was published and witnessed just the beginning of the groundswell of support for her views.
	www.chemheritage.org /classroom/chemach/environment/carson.html (602 words)

	DEP-DCNR Building Named for Pennsylvania's Rachel Carson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Rachel Carson was a native Pennsylvanian who pioneered the modern environmental movement with her 1962 book "Silent Spring," which created a worldwide awareness of the dangers of pollution.
		In 1991, the Pennsylvania General Assembly memorialized Carson as the "mother of the age of ecology" and designated every May 27, her birthday, as Rachel Carson Day in Pennsylvania.
		Carson died in 1964 at the age of 56.
	www.dep.state.pa.us /dep/Rachel_Carson/building.htm (278 words)

	The My Hero Project - Rachel Carson
		Rachel Carson (1907-1964) was a scientist, writer, naturalist and, many say, the mother of the environmental movement.
		By the age of 28, she was writing science radio scripts for the Bureau of Fisheries, which in 1936 led to a full-time job as a junior aquatic biologist.
		Rachel Carson was the mother of the environmental movement.
	myhero.com /hero.asp?hero=rcarson (1505 words)

	Rachel Carson biography
		DESCRIPTION OF ACCOMPLISHMENTS: After completing her education, Carson joined the U. Bureau of Fisheries as the writer of a radio show entitled "Romance Under the Waters," in which she was able to explore life under the seas and bring it to listeners.
		In 1936, after being the first woman to take and pass the civil service test, the Bureau of Fisheries hired her as a full-time junior biologist, and over the next 15 years, she rose in the ranks until she was the chief editor of all publications for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
		During the 1940s, Carson began to write books on her observations of life under the sea, a world as yet unknown to the majority of people.
	www.lkwdpl.org /wihohio/cars-rac.htm (368 words)

	TIME 100: Rachel Carson
		Not until junior year, when a biology course reawakened the "sense of wonder" with which she had always encountered the natural world, did she switch her major to zoology, not yet aware that her literary and scientific passions might be complementary.
		Graduating magna cum laude in 1929, Carson won her master's degree in zoology at Johns Hopkins, but increasing family responsibilities caused her to abandon her quest for a doctorate.
		In 1935 "Ray" Carson, as some friends knew her, took part-time work writing science radio scripts for the old Bureau of Fisheries, a job that led, in 1936, to a full-time appointment as a junior aquatic biologist.
	www.time.com /time/time100/scientist/profile/carson.html (551 words)

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