... then turned his attention to the Congo Basin in central Africa. Leopold thought the government was not ambitious and therefore he sought to secure the Congo for Belgium by himself. Reports of great natural resources and potential wealth were coming out of Africa. In eighteen seventy-five a race for the Congo was developing. Belgium did not have the power or money ... abstract concept but as a reality represented by free trade, postal union and the abolishment of the slave trade. Mr. Demetris C. Boulger, an enthusiast of the King's policies wrote in his book The Congo State'; "owing to t...

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... what the health risks were. The government said the pesticides were safe, so the people used them. It was not until Rachel Carson's book, Silent Spring, written in 1967, that people started to question the use of pesticides. Author and scientist Theo Colborn questions why the effects of ... these toxins were not discovered earlier. In her book, Our Stolen Future: Are We Threatening our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story, she writes about early signs that should have ... small penises. In mid-April of 1988, seals began washing up on the shores of Norther...

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