FRONTLINE
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- This Week: "Poisoned Waters" (120 minutes),
April 21st at 9pm on PBS (Check local listings)

----------------------

For years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith has reported
from the corridors of power in Washington, on Wall Street, and overseas.
*But these days, he's worried about something that he's found much
closer to home -- something mysterious that's appeared in waters that he
knows well: *frogs with six legs, male amphibians with ovaries, "dead
zones" where nothing can live or grow.

What's causing the trouble? Smith suspects the answers might lie close
to home as well.

This Tuesday night, in a special two-hour FRONTLINE broadcast
--"Poisoned Waters"-- Smith takes a hard look at a new wave of pollution
that's imperiling the nation's waterways, focusing on two of our most
iconic: *the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound. *He also examines three
decades of environmental regulation that are failing to meet this new
threat, and have yet to clean up the ongoing mess of PCBs, the
staggering waste from factory farms, and the fall-out from unchecked
suburban sprawl.

"The environment has slipped off our radar screen because it's not a hot
crisis like the financial meltdown, war, or terrorism," Smith says.
*"But pollution is a ticking time bomb. It's a chronic cancer that is
slowly eating away the natural resources that are vital to our very
lives."

Among the most worrisome of the new contaminants are "endocrine
disruptors," chemical compounds found in common household products that
mimic hormones in the human body and cause freakish mutations in frogs
and amphibians.

"There are five million people being exposed to endocrine disruptors
just in the Mid-Atlantic region," a doctor at the Johns Hopkins School
of Public Health tells Smith. *"And yet we don't know precisely how many
of them are going to develop premature breast cancer, going to have
problems with reproduction, going to have all kinds of congenital
anomalies of the male genitalia that are happening at a broad low level
so that they don't raise the alarm in the general public."

Can new models of "smart growth" and regulation reverse decades of
damage? *Are the most real and lasting changes likely to come from the
top down, given an already overstretched Obama administration? *Or will
the greatest reasons for hope come from the bottom up, through the
action of a growing number of grassroots groups trying to effect
environmental change?

Join us for the broadcast this Tuesday night. *Online, you can watch
"Poisoned Waters" again, find out how safe your drinking water is, *and
*learn how you can get involved.

Ken Dornstein
Senior Editor

------------------------

Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support *of PBS viewers.
Major funding for FRONTLINE is provided by The John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the Park
Foundation. Major funding for Poisoned Waters is provided by The Seattle
Foundation, The Russell Family Foundation, The Wallace Genetic
Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, The Keith
Campbell Foundation for the Environment, The Merrill Family Foundation,
The Abell Foundation, The Bullitt Foundation, the Park Foundation, and
The Rauch Foundation. *Additional funding is provided by The Town Creek
Foundation, The Clayton Baker Trust, The Lockhart Vaughan Foundation,
The Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation, The Chesapeake Bay Trust, Louisa
and Robert Duemling, Robert and Phyllis Hennigson, Robert Lundeen, The
Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, The Prince Charitable Trusts, Ron
and Kathy McDowell, Valerie and Bill Anders, Bruce and Marty Coffey, The
Foun!

dation for Puget Sound, Janet Ketcham, Win Rhodes, The Robert C. and
Nani S. Warren Foundation, Jim and Kathy Youngren, Vinton and Amelia
Sommerville and Laura Lundgren.

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In article ,
Bill wrote:

FRONTLINE
http://www.pbs.org/frontline/

- This Week: "Poisoned Waters" (120 minutes),
April 21st at 9pm on PBS (Check local listings)

----------------------

For years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith has reported
from the corridors of power in Washington, on Wall Street, and overseas.
*But these days, he's worried about something that he's found much
closer to home -- something mysterious that's appeared in waters that he
knows well: *frogs with six legs, male amphibians with ovaries, "dead
zones" where nothing can live or grow.

What's causing the trouble? Smith suspects the answers might lie close
to home as well.

This Tuesday night, in a special two-hour FRONTLINE broadcast
--"Poisoned Waters"-- Smith takes a hard look at a new wave of pollution
that's imperiling the nation's waterways, focusing on two of our most
iconic: *the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound. *He also examines three
decades of environmental regulation that are failing to meet this new
threat, and have yet to clean up the ongoing mess of PCBs, the
staggering waste from factory farms, and the fall-out from unchecked
suburban sprawl.

"The environment has slipped off our radar screen because it's not a hot
crisis like the financial meltdown, war, or terrorism," Smith says.
*"But pollution is a ticking time bomb. It's a chronic cancer that is
slowly eating away the natural resources that are vital to our very
lives."

Among the most worrisome of the new contaminants are "endocrine
disruptors," chemical compounds found in common household products that
mimic hormones in the human body and cause freakish mutations in frogs
and amphibians.

"There are five million people being exposed to endocrine disruptors
just in the Mid-Atlantic region," a doctor at the Johns Hopkins School
of Public Health tells Smith. *"And yet we don't know precisely how many
of them are going to develop premature breast cancer, going to have
problems with reproduction, going to have all kinds of congenital
anomalies of the male genitalia that are happening at a broad low level
so that they don't raise the alarm in the general public."

Can new models of "smart growth" and regulation reverse decades of
damage? *Are the most real and lasting changes likely to come from the
top down, given an already overstretched Obama administration? *Or will
the greatest reasons for hope come from the bottom up, through the
action of a growing number of grassroots groups trying to effect
environmental change?

Join us for the broadcast this Tuesday night. *Online, you can watch
"Poisoned Waters" again, find out how safe your drinking water is, *and
*learn how you can get involved.

Ken Dornstein
Senior Editor

------------------------
This will probably get kinda sticky. If you "google" phyto endocrine or
phytoendocrine it quickly comes up with soy or phytoestrogen.
See article on phytoestrogens in Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoestrogens

Lavender bath oils are an other culprit know to grow tits on little boys.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16906552/wid/11915829/
Oils in bath products may enlarge boys' breasts
Researchers suspect lavender, tea tree oil disrupt hormonal balance

Essential oils such as tea tree oil and lavender are often found in
soaps, shampoos and lotions. Researchers suspect the oils may promote
temporary breast development in boys.

updated 3:33 p.m. PT, Wed., Jan. 31, 2007
BOSTON - Lavender and tea tree oils found in some shampoos, soaps and
lotions can temporarily leave boys with enlarged breasts in rare cases,
apparently by disrupting their hormonal balance, a preliminary study
suggests.

Breakdown products "Round-Up" also come under the disputed heading of
endocrine disrupters. I say disputed because some say that they are
ubiquitous in nature.
--

- Billy
"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being
is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the
moment of conception until death." - Rachel Carson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI29wVQN8Go

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072040.html

In article
,
Billy wrote:

In article ,
Bill wrote:

FRONTLINE
http://www.pbs.org/frontline/

- This Week: "Poisoned Waters" (120 minutes),
April 21st at 9pm on PBS (Check local listings)

----------------------

For years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith has reported
from the corridors of power in Washington, on Wall Street, and overseas.
*But these days, he's worried about something that he's found much
closer to home -- something mysterious that's appeared in waters that he
knows well: *frogs with six legs, male amphibians with ovaries, "dead
zones" where nothing can live or grow.

What's causing the trouble? Smith suspects the answers might lie close
to home as well.

This Tuesday night, in a special two-hour FRONTLINE broadcast
--"Poisoned Waters"-- Smith takes a hard look at a new wave of pollution
that's imperiling the nation's waterways, focusing on two of our most
iconic: *the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound. *He also examines three
decades of environmental regulation that are failing to meet this new
threat, and have yet to clean up the ongoing mess of PCBs, the
staggering waste from factory farms, and the fall-out from unchecked
suburban sprawl.

"The environment has slipped off our radar screen because it's not a hot
crisis like the financial meltdown, war, or terrorism," Smith says.
*"But pollution is a ticking time bomb. It's a chronic cancer that is
slowly eating away the natural resources that are vital to our very
lives."

Among the most worrisome of the new contaminants are "endocrine
disruptors," chemical compounds found in common household products that
mimic hormones in the human body and cause freakish mutations in frogs
and amphibians.

"There are five million people being exposed to endocrine disruptors
just in the Mid-Atlantic region," a doctor at the Johns Hopkins School
of Public Health tells Smith. *"And yet we don't know precisely how many
of them are going to develop premature breast cancer, going to have
problems with reproduction, going to have all kinds of congenital
anomalies of the male genitalia that are happening at a broad low level
so that they don't raise the alarm in the general public."

Can new models of "smart growth" and regulation reverse decades of
damage? *Are the most real and lasting changes likely to come from the
top down, given an already overstretched Obama administration? *Or will
the greatest reasons for hope come from the bottom up, through the
action of a growing number of grassroots groups trying to effect
environmental change?

Join us for the broadcast this Tuesday night. *Online, you can watch
"Poisoned Waters" again, find out how safe your drinking water is, *and
*learn how you can get involved.

Ken Dornstein
Senior Editor

------------------------
This will probably get kinda sticky. If you "google" phyto endocrine or
phytoendocrine it quickly comes up with soy or phytoestrogen.
See article on phytoestrogens in Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoestrogens

Lavender bath oils are an other culprit know to grow tits on little boys.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16906552/wid/11915829/
Oils in bath products may enlarge boys' breasts
Researchers suspect lavender, tea tree oil disrupt hormonal balance

Essential oils such as tea tree oil and lavender are often found in
soaps, shampoos and lotions. Researchers suspect the oils may promote
temporary breast development in boys.

updated 3:33 p.m. PT, Wed., Jan. 31, 2007
BOSTON - Lavender and tea tree oils found in some shampoos, soaps and
lotions can temporarily leave boys with enlarged breasts in rare cases,
apparently by disrupting their hormonal balance, a preliminary study
suggests.

Breakdown products "Round-Up" also come under the disputed heading of
endocrine disrupters. I say disputed because some say that they are
ubiquitous in nature.

While we sort of know what we are talking about. I'd hazard a guess
Phytoestrogens are not something discussed at dinner in most places. I
wonder if Obama will ever mention the word.

The question then becomes how to reduce contact and remediate when it
is a past tense issue. If that is possible. Serious stuff.

Bill whose ten year younger brother had breast reduction 40 years
ago.

--
Garden in shade zone 5 S Jersey USA

Not all who wander are lost.
- J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973)

Don't forget the global warming farce that's going on now. I hear that the
farmers various breeds of live stock are doing too much farting and are over
loading the atmosphere with too much CO2. I think that's also what caused
the end of the ice age, and caused the earth to heat up. The dinosaurs and
other amphibians were doing too much farting and thus clogged up the sky and
cause the earth to heat up. I thought that plant life needed CO2 to survive.
When are people going to wise up and realize that global warming is a
natural phenomena and can't be stopped. All we can do is keep our waters
clean and industrial smoke to a minimum. The US probably has the cleanest
air and water on earth. If you want to see real disgusting pollution go to
China, India and see what Russia did to their own country and to the
Ukraine. Oh I almost forgot, BLAME IT ALL ON BUSH!


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- This Week: "Poisoned Waters" (120 minutes),
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----------------------

For years, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Hedrick Smith has reported
from the corridors of power in Washington, on Wall Street, and overseas.
But these days, he's worried about something that he's found much
closer to home -- something mysterious that's appeared in waters that he
knows well: frogs with six legs, male amphibians with ovaries, "dead
zones" where nothing can live or grow.

What's causing the trouble? Smith suspects the answers might lie close
to home as well.

This Tuesday night, in a special two-hour FRONTLINE broadcast
--"Poisoned Waters"-- Smith takes a hard look at a new wave of pollution
that's imperiling the nation's waterways, focusing on two of our most
iconic: the Chesapeake Bay and Puget Sound. He also examines three
decades of environmental regulation that are failing to meet this new
threat, and have yet to clean up the ongoing mess of PCBs, the
staggering waste from factory farms, and the fall-out from unchecked
suburban sprawl.

"The environment has slipped off our radar screen because it's not a hot
crisis like the financial meltdown, war, or terrorism," Smith says.
"But pollution is a ticking time bomb. It's a chronic cancer that is
slowly eating away the natural resources that are vital to our very
lives."

Among the most worrisome of the new contaminants are "endocrine
disruptors," chemical compounds found in common household products that
mimic hormones in the human body and cause freakish mutations in frogs
and amphibians.

"There are five million people being exposed to endocrine disruptors
just in the Mid-Atlantic region," a doctor at the Johns Hopkins School
of Public Health tells Smith. "And yet we don't know precisely how many
of them are going to develop premature breast cancer, going to have
problems with reproduction, going to have all kinds of congenital
anomalies of the male genitalia that are happening at a broad low level
so that they don't raise the alarm in the general public."

Can new models of "smart growth" and regulation reverse decades of
damage? Are the most real and lasting changes likely to come from the
top down, given an already overstretched Obama administration? Or will
the greatest reasons for hope come from the bottom up, through the
action of a growing number of grassroots groups trying to effect
environmental change?

Join us for the broadcast this Tuesday night. Online, you can watch
"Poisoned Waters" again, find out how safe your drinking water is, and
learn how you can get involved.

Ken Dornstein
Senior Editor

------------------------

Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers.
Major funding for FRONTLINE is provided by The John D. and Catherine T.
MacArthur Foundation. Additional funding is provided by the Park
Foundation. Major funding for Poisoned Waters is provided by The Seattle
Foundation, The Russell Family Foundation, The Wallace Genetic
Foundation, The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation, The Keith
Campbell Foundation for the Environment, The Merrill Family Foundation,
The Abell Foundation, The Bullitt Foundation, the Park Foundation, and
The Rauch Foundation. Additional funding is provided by The Town Creek
Foundation, The Clayton Baker Trust, The Lockhart Vaughan Foundation,
The Curtis and Edith Munson Foundation, The Chesapeake Bay Trust, Louisa
and Robert Duemling, Robert and Phyllis Hennigson, Robert Lundeen, The
Eugene and Agnes E. Meyer Foundation, The Prince Charitable Trusts, Ron
and Kathy McDowell, Valerie and Bill Anders, Bruce and Marty Coffey, The
Foun!

dation for Puget Sound, Janet Ketcham, Win Rhodes, The Robert C. and
Nani S. Warren Foundation, Jim and Kathy Youngren, Vinton and Amelia
Sommerville and Laura Lundgren.

------------------------

FRONTLINE is a registered trademark of the WGBH Educational Foundation.

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comment about a FRONTLINE program, about our website, or about this
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"Bill" wrote in message
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Bill whose ten year younger brother had breast reduction 40 years
ago.


Was this brother overweight? Fat tissue makes female hormones that stimulate
breast development, even in males. I've never seen a normal weight or
slender male with breast development.

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You're really a jerk. Get a life, troll.
--

- Billy
"For the first time in the history of the world, every human being
is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the
moment of conception until death." - Rachel Carson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WI29wVQN8Go

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1072040.html

Very informative. I think due to increasing water pollution everyone should aware of the importance of water treatment. Weather it is on a local level or Industrial level. I think if industries properly handle their waste water, we can solve many water pollution problems.