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~*~Updates for the New Year 2001~*~

Updates, Announcements, and New Posts
September 2000 thru March 2001
including
September, October, November, and December of 2000
and January, February, and March of 2001
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Updates, Announcements, and New Posts
All of January, February and March 2001

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Tuesday, February 1, 2000 about 8:00 am (CST)

The New Millennium

After a long hiatus, today we will once again begin updating
this site.  We had hoped, and were told by several previously-
knowledgeable individuals that Southwest Baptist University
was considering some form of agreement.

No such agreement has materialized ...

Therefore, we proceed.  

This week, we have already posted three (3) new pages.

First, the
Emergency Medicine Textbook excerpts on
Organophosphate Pesticide Poisoning

This is a selection from an emergency medical textbook on
the treatment of organophosphate pesticide poisoning.

After reading the above excerpts, it is extraordinarily clear that --
to put it mildly -- SBU officials did everything wrong.

The university nurse, Nancy Hodges, and a number of other
staff members would not even help Marie to get to the hospital,
provide her with the Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS) for
(what SBU claimed) was the "non-toxic" the pesticide, or even
tell her who had fumigated the buildings.

After seeing the nurse, Marie returned to her apartment, disoriented
and in pain.  She passed out on the bed, too sick to even make it to
the hospital.

When Marie's roommate returned home, she found Marie was
still ill and, at times, incoherent.  Claiming that she had already
seen the Nurse, Marie demanded that she be allowed to go back
to sleep as the Nurse had instructed -- so that she could attended
classes the next day.

 Nurse Hodges had already informed Marie that if she did not
attend class the next day, her absence would be unexcused and
would likely result in the failure of her coursework -- even though
Marie had not exceeded her limit of absences for the semester.

When Marie's roommate called Nurse Hodges later that evening
to confirm these instructions with her, Nurse Nancy Hodges assured
the roommate that she had already seen Marie earlier that day and
that Marie had simply had an "allergic" reaction to the "non-toxic"
pesticides used on campus.

According to Nurse Hodges, Marie was "fine" and was just trying to
start trouble.  When the roommate expressed concern that perhaps she
should take Marie to the hospital, Nurse Hodges insisted that Marie
be allowed to "sleep off" the "allergic" reaction.

"She will be fine by tomorrow," Nurse Hodges said and kept
saying.  

But Marie didn't "sleep it off "and "tomorrow" has never come ...
this nightmare has never ended.

And it has been TWELVE YEARS now.

If Marie had gotten the antidote and proper treatment, she would
have been well in ten or TWELVE DAYS.

The arrogance, self-centeredness, hatred, and greed of some of the
officials and staff associated  with Southwest Baptist University is
stunning, astonishing ... and, for Marie, brutally tragic.

Second, the SBU Board of Trustees Page has been updated and expanded
to include a number of additional years.  

 Please click on the appropriate year(s):

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The Southwest Baptist University BOARD OF TRUSTEES

***1999-2000***   ***1998-1999***    ***1997-1998***  ***1995-1996***
***1992-1993***    ***1988-1989***   ***1981-1982***
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Third, new information, updates, and thanks have been added to the
"How Can I Help?" Page.  Click below for more details:
                            ~How Can I Help?~

Finally, this site is undergoing a major revision.  New pages, updated
information, and minor corrections will be added daily.  

Please check  for updates often .

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Wednesday, February 2, 2000 about 10:00 am (CST)

~~~ New Pages~~~
Newsgroup Posts

We have received permission to repost five (5) Internet Newsgroup
messages which detail the situation at Southwest Baptist University
 
        First,  AN EDUCATION TO DIE FOR...
which includes :
    Marie O'Hara's April 16, 1996 letter to the North Central Association
    of  Colleges and Schools  
    and
   Marie O'Hara's April 16, 1996 letter to the Missouri Dept of Agriculture

       Second, The "Cost" of a Christian Education
which describes some of the abuses of the National Direct Student Loan
Program (NDSL) at Southwest Baptist University .

        Third, SBU: You Think You Would Be SAFE at a CHRISTIAN
University  
This post describes questionable conduct by SBU officials, staff, and employees
The post includes the:

    DIAZINON Label Warning,
    DIAZINON Note to Physician,
    DIAZINON PRECAUTIONS,
    DIAZINON Material Safety Data Sheet (MSDS),

as well as descriptions of the experiences of other exposure victims at SBU
and excerpts from the Bolivar Herald Free Press, the Bolivar local newspaper.

        Fourth, INJURED CLASSICS SCHOLAR NEEDS HELP
This post recounts the (as-yet unsuccessful) search for a new university and a
means of completing Marie's education and college degree.

         Fifth, "Visions and Revisions:  A Christmas Thanks"
The original short story -- "Visions and Revisions" -- written by
Marie O'Hara in 1980, won the

                      Southwest Baptist University
    1980 Scop Award for Creative Short Story Writing
          and the Dunnegan Scholarship in Literature.

During the 1998 Christmas Holidays, Marie rewrote the story
as a Christmas story and asked that it be presented to her friends
as a Christmas gift in thanks for their financial assistance.

The revised story and the following message was sent to a group
of her friends during the 1998 Christmas season.

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Morning ~ Thursday, February 3, 2000 about 11:00 am (CST)

~~~ New Pages~~~

This morning  Additions and Updates to the Pesticide Poisoning Page,
including links to three (3) other pages:

1) For the Extension Toxicology Network Toxicology
Information Briefs  on  Cholinesterase Inhibition.
                             
Cholinesterase (ko-li-nes-ter-ace) is one of many important
enzymes needed for the proper functioning of the nervous systems
of humans, other vertebrates, and insects. Certain chemical classes
of pesticides, such as organophosphates (OPs) and carbamates
(CMs) interfering with, or 'inhibit' cholinesterase and cause
potentially fatal disruption of the nervous system.   please click here .

2) For the statement by Jay Feldman, Executive Director,
Beyond Pesticides/National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides
at Press Conference on the School Environment Protection Act (SEPA)
at the U.S. Senate on October 13, 1999.   Click here.

3)  For NCAMP PRESS RELEASE (OCTOBER 13, 1999)
introducing the School Environment Protection Act (SEPA) to
protect children from hazardous pesticides used in and around
schools.  Click here.

We had a small formatting problem earlier this morning, but hope to
be placing ten (10) new pages shortly.

Your prayers, as always, are welcome.

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Morning ~ Friday, February 4, 2000 about 8:00 am (CST)

Thank you for your prayers.  We located and fixed the formatting
glitch and have now posted ten (10) new pages:

1)  Dr. Claudia Miller 's Congressional Testimony
on Chemical Intolerance

United States House of Representatives Invited Testimony
by Claudia S. Miller, M. D., M. S. Environmental and
Occupational Medicine Department of Family Practice
October 26, 1999.

In October of last year, Dr. Miller was invited to testify on the
growing problem of chemical intolerance -- what she and her
colleagues are now refering to as TILT, Toxicant Induced Low
Tolerance.

TILT symptoms were first noted among industrial workers at German
Wartime nerve gas factories.   Later, physicians described similar
symptoms among farm workers and others exposed to organophosphate
pesticides.

Now, researchers are finding similar symptoms have developed in
Gulf War Veterans who were exposed to low levels of  nerve gas,
pesticides, and other toxicants.   Dr. Miller provides a understandable
summary of their findings.   Please click here.

2) Brain Mapping the Chemically Sensitive
 by Donald L. Dudley, M.D., Seattle.

  Donald L. Dudley, M.D. was one of the speakers at the
Well Mind Association 1992 Symposium in October.

He presented new research that he is doing on identifying
actual injury in the brains of sensitive individuals on
exposure to substances using electroencephalogram and
evoked response measuring techniques and exposing them
to common chemicals.   Please click here.

For those who requested it, here is the:

3)  School Environment Protection Act (SEPA)
     Bill Summary

The School Environment Protection Act (SEPA) provides
protection for children from the use of pesticides in school
buildings and on school grounds.   Please click here.

4)  Letters to the Editor and Newspaper Articles
in the BOLIVAR HERALD-FREE PRESS

Letter 1: We Must Limit the Use of Chemicals
Letter 2: SBU Responds
Letter 3: Don't Condone Destruction
Letter 4: Tells of Bad, Good
Letter 5: The Name Says It All
Letter 6: Even Oppressed People Can Exhibit Happiness

Article: Student Sues SBU and its Pest Controller

 5)  Donation Advertisements
in the BOLIVAR HERALD-FREE PRESS 
with History and Comments

                     BENEFIT SALE AD - Wednesday, October 10, 1990
(1) First Ad - Wednesday, Jan. 24, 1996    (2) Second Ad  - Wednesday, January 32, 1996
(3) Third Ad  - Wednesday Feb. 7, 1996    (4) Fourth Ad - Wednesday, Feb. 14, 1996 
(5) Fifth Ad - Wednesday, Feb.21, 1996     (6) Sixth Ad - Wednesday, Feb. 28, 1996
(7) Seventh Ad - Wednesday, March 6, 1996

6)  Letters to and from the North Central Association
of Colleges and Schools

NCA (Letter 1) -- April 24, 1996:  Steven Crow, the Deputy Director of
the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools to complainant,
Marie O'Hara.

NCA (Letter 2) -- Enclosure Letter -- April 25, 1996:  Steven Crow to the
Deputy Director of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools
to SBU President, Roy Blunt.

NCA (Letter 3)  -- November 4, 1996:  Steven Crow, the Deputy Director
of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools to complainant,
Marie Ann O'Hara.   

COMMENTS  on these letters and the NCA "Investigation."

Next ... Four More Newsgroup Posts

Four (4) posts -- THE LAMBS AND THE LIONS SERIES -- which
were posted to a several internet newsgroups in early September 1999

7)     1/4 THE LAMBS AND THE LIONS:
The SBU "Questions of the Heart" PETITION and BOYCOTT
PART 1:  LOST LAMBS, LOST SHEPHERDS

8)  2/4 THE LAMBS AND THE LIONS:
The SBU "Questions of the Heart" PETITION and BOYCOTT
PART 2:  Cindy Duehring's Bismark Tribune Article

9)  3/4 THE LAMBS AND THE LIONS:
The SBU "Questions of the Heart" PETITION and BOYCOTT
PART 3: People Article - Toxic Avenger, Cindy Duehring

10)  4/4 THE LAMBS AND THE LIONS:
The SBU "Questions of the Heart" PETITION and BOYCOTT
PART 4:  Bismark Times -- Cindy Duehring's Obituary

Hopefully, we will be posting another seven (7) or so pages by this
evening.

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Morning ~ Saturday, February 5, 2000 about 8:00 am (CST)

We have installed new software -- and will be adding new pages,
amending, correcting , rechecking links ... and generally tinkering  
with the site for most of today and tomorrow.

We will add the new page links to this section as they become
available.  Please check this section for new pages later today.

Thank you for your patience.

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Morning ~ Sunday, February 6, 2000 about 11:00 am (CST)

This morning, we have posted nine (9) new pages.  

    Please see the  ~*~Welcome Page~*~  !
                   
       Those items marked ~*~New Today~*~
        were posted within the last day or so.

           Those items marked  ~*~New~*~
      are newly posted within the last 10 days.

  Please click here to go to the  ~*~Welcome Page~*~

Most of the other pages have undergone some kind
of  updates, revisions, or additions.

Hopefully, we will be checking links and adding 10 or 12
more pages later tonight or tomorrow.

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Late night ~ Monday, February 7, 2000 about 11:30 pm (CST)

We have had some problems with net congestion today and
have decided to post a small batch of three (3) new pages
now and wait until the traffic improves to post the larger batch.

1)  Long-term Effects of Workplace Asthma
      a summary of an article in the
     Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine

2)   Scientific American
      Everyday Exposure to Toxic Pollutants
     Environmental regulations have improved the quality of outdoor air
     But problems that persist indoors have received too little attention
              by Wayne R. Ott and John W. Roberts

3)   New York State Board of Regents
      Bill of  Rights:  Environmental Quality in Our Schools
      Adopted by the New York State Board of Regents in June 1994
         with
     Safe Schools:   Irene Ruth Wilkenfeld's Workshop on Safe Schools

Thank you for your patience.

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Morning ~ Wednesday, February 9, 2000 about 10:00 am (CST)

God and the Internet willing, we will be posting two groups
of posts today.

The first group of eight (8) posts should be accessible by
10:00 am (CST) this morning. 

    Please see the  ~*~Welcome Page~*~  !
                   
       Those items marked ~*~New Today~*~
        were posted within the last day or so.

           Those items marked  ~*~New~*~
      are newly posted within the last 10 days.

  Please click here to go to the  ~*~Welcome Page~*~

The second group of eight (8) should be accessible by 8:00 pm
(CST) tonight.  Please check the  ~*~Welcome Page~*~
at that time.

Other pages will still be undergoing  updates, revisions,
link checks, and additions.

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Morning ~ Thursday, February 10, 2000 about 6:00 am (CST)

Yesterday's second posting was again delayed by a slow server.
We have made arrangements to circumvent the problem.   Hopefully,
a larger batch of pages will be accessible shortly -- some time later
today.

Thank you.

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Morning ~ Friday, February 11, 2000 about 8:00 am (CST)

We were successful in completing most of the link checking,
correction, and other maintenance, rearrangements,  and general
"housekeeping" yesterday.

We are looking forward (again, God and the Internet willing)
to posting the remaining twenty (20) or so pages over the next
several days.

It is our hope that we will be able to formally "OPEN" this site
on Sunday, February 13, 2000 -- in time for Valentine's Day.

We will be placing pages throughout today and the weekend --
a few at a time.

Thank you for your patience.

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Morning ~ Saturday, February 12, 2000 about 8:00 am (CST)

We have started our additions today and plan to add throughout today:

First addition:

1)  ~*~New Today~*~
Washington University School of
Medicine, St. Louis, MO
Toxic Neuropathies resulting from
Organophosphate Pesticides
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Second Batch:

2)  ~*~New Today~*~
An Enzyme is the Key
to Chemical Sensitivity Reactions
Everett Herald
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3)  ~*~New Today~*~
Sensitivity to Organophosphates
Due to Enzyme Paraoxonase (PON1)
From the Research of Dr. Clement Furlong
with Commentary
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4)  ~*~New Today~*~
Lowered Levels of Enzyme Paraoxonase
May Play Major Role in
Increasing Risk of Heart Disease
Information from
The Journal of Clinical Investigation
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5)  ~*~New Today~*~
Boston Globe
Boy in the Hood
A Child's Fight to Return to School
After Chemical Injury
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Morning ~ Monday, February 14, 2000 about 8:00 am (CST)

Yesterday, we were informed that Dr. James Sells had returned
to California ... his father passed away this week.

We were to post information regarding the unethical or illegal
conduct of the SBU administration this morning -- much of it
involving Dr. Sells or his administration or influence.

Under the circumstances, however, Marie was hesitant. 

We reminded her that Dr. Sells and those associated with SBU,
First Baptist Church of Bolivar, and others |were merciless,
manipulative,  cruel -- even vicious -- each of the times that
she lost loved ones:
her father in  May 1984; her mother in May 1994, and, in June
of 1996, her brother-in-law and her beloved little nephew.

But Marie answered:
    "Yes, and in all likelihood, I will bare those scars for the rest
of my life, but I have no desire to follow their example.  

No matter what Dr. Sells has done or said, no matter how he has
terrorized or injured me and my family ... his father has died.

It doesn't matter who you are, or how old you are, when your
father or mother dies -- everything changes.  At least for a few days,
let him grieve his father."

Though we will complete the details to formally open this site
today, we have agreed to delay some of the posting for a few days
longer.
                                      ~~~~*~~~~
We are told that the SBU Trustees will be opening the
February 14-15 SBU Winter Trustee Meeting this morning.  

It is our prayer that the Trustees have the wisdom to use this
pause to FINALLY do what is right over the next two days --
for everyone's sake.
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Morning ~ Saturday, February 19, 2000 about 9:00 am (CST)

The SBU Trustees met Monday and Tuesday of this week -- February 14 and 15.

As far as we can determine, the Trustees  -- once again -- refused to take
corrective or responsible action in this situation.

We trust that Dr. Jim Sells has returned from his family affairs in California
and, again, we express our condolences to him and his family.

However, Marie and others continue to suffer and we must now proceed ...
                                      ~~~~*~~~~
  The "Healing Hearts Proposal" Introduction

The "Healing Hearts Proposal" was faxed to the President of Southwest
Baptist University, Dr. C. Pat Taylor, in September 1999.  

Spitting furiously, the lead attorney for Southwest Baptist University,
Mr. Gary Cunningham, venomously and maliciously rejected any discussion
or negotiation of this -- or any other -- proposal, offer, or agreement.

Thursday (February 17, 2000), this proposal was faxed to the leadership of
the Missouri Baptist and Southern Baptist Conventions including:  
   SBU Alumnus and Executive President of the Missouri Baptist Convention,
Mr. Jim Hill;
   the Editor of the Missouri Baptist Convention newspaper, the Word and Way,
Mr. Bill Webb;
   the current President of the Southern Baptist Convention, Mr. Paige Patterson,
and the President of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the
  Southern Baptist Convention, Dr. Richard Land.

Further history, comments, pages and additions are to be posted this weekend.

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Morning ~ Saturday, February 26, 2000 about 7:30 am (CST)

This week, we have been busy distributing information about this situation
to various Christian and Baptist leaders and to the media and press.

If the governance of Southwest Baptist University insists on acting in
an unethical and illegal manner, at the very least ... they need an audience.

We have delayed posting any further history, comments, pages and additions
until we were certain that other Baptist leaders were alerted.

We are now assured that Baptist leaders and educators have been fully
apprised and are, therefore, responsible for their actions ... or inaction.

Please check for updates daily (around 7:30 am CST) as we will
henceforth be posting on a regular basis.

A number of new pages are scheduled to be posted today.

Thank you.

More to come ...

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Late Night ~ Saturday, February 26, 2000 about 10:30 pm (CST)

We are introducing a ~*~New Category Today~*~
with seven (7) new pages:

~*~New Category Today~*~
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 Items for the Consideration
of the SBU Trustees
and the Missouri Baptist Convention
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1)  Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Professor Speaks on Setting Priorities,
Taps Old Testament's Haggai
Baptist Press

2)  Texas Woman's University
Ordered to Pay Disabled Professor
For Retaliation Under ADA
The Chronicle of Higher Education
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3)  Jury Awards $5 Million to Man
Told He Wasn't Allergic to Bee Stings
with Comments
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4)  $6 Million Awarded in Sexual Harassment Case
The Kansas City Star
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5)  Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
Board of Trustees Dismisses President,
Cites Inappropriate Anger
The Kansas City Star
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6) Supreme Court Judge Calls for Greater Civility
 From The Word and Way,
the Journal of the Missouri Baptist Convention,
 ~~~*~~~

 7)  If Hard-Hearted Attorneys Are the Problem ...
 ~~~*~~~

We hope to post:

The "Heart of the Matter" Proposal
(Marie's proposal to the Missouri Baptist Convention)

during this coming week.

We should be adding more pages this weekend -- probably Sunday evening.

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Morning~ Monday, February 28, 2000 about 7:00 am (CST)

This morning, we have only one news items that we would like to bring to the
attention of the SBU Trustees and the Missouri Baptist Convention.

Man Convicted of Chemical Assault on Severely Allergic Woman
   BBC News

Although a more detailed description will be forthcoming, for the moment,
we will post this with only a brief comment.

In addition to the break-in by the Polk County Sheriff's Department and
a social worker from the Missouri Division of Aging, Marie has survived
at least fifteen (15) assaults with pesticides or petrochemicals to the outside
of  her home or grounds.

Each of the chemical attacks occurred usually between 1:00 am and
3:00 am in the early morning  -- each within a day or so of one of the
seven electrical disconnections, or when a major move was made in
either her civil or criminal complaints against SBU, or when Marie
attempted to ask for some kind of Community or Church assistance.

Believing this pattern to be somehow unrelated or "coincidental" is just
not rational.

Though these attacks were excruciating and debilitating, Marie survived.

Marie's two outdoor dogs --  Phoenix and Ree -- and an outdoor cat,
however, were murdered as a result of three such attacks.

(A second outdoor cat -- an older kitten -- was run over repeatedly,
horribly mutilated, and the barely-recognizable corpse was tossed over
the back fence).

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Man Convicted of Chemical
Assault on Severely Allergic Woman
   BBC News
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For those who inquired, a second group of pages are scheduled to be
posted later today.

Your prayers are particularly welcome this week as the powers that be
at SBU and Missouri Baptist Convention may not be overjoyed with the
subjects which we are compelled to disclose this week.

Thank you.

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Morning ~ Tuesday, February 29, 2000 about 7:30 am (CST)

We had a number of inquiries regarding the sensitivity of some asthmatics --
such as Marie -- to irritants, pollutants, and pollens or molds.  Perhaps this
new research will help explain.

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Decline in Lung Antioxidants
Linked to Asthma Attacks
The British Medical Journal Lancet
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More new pages to come later today ...

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Afternoon ~ Tuesday, February 29, 2000 about 3:30 pm (CST)

Three more pages under the section:

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Medical Information and Research
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1) ~*~New Today~*~
Neuropsychological Evaluation
of Bystander Exposure to Pesticides
Dr. Raymond Singer
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2) ~*~New Today~*~
Peripheral Neuropathy:
Symptoms and Managing the Pain
Mayo Clinic
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3) ~*~New Today~*~
Screening Tests for Cell Damage
and Immune Disorders
Immunosciences Lab
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