On Tue, Oct 08, 2002 at 03:31:52PM -0500, Ruhlen, Rachel Louise (UMC-Student) wrote: > This reminds me of the theory that there is no body of water in the > entire world that is uncontaminated by synthetic organochlorines which > have been produced wide-scale only since WWII. It certainly matters to > us if there is such a source of water. As it stands now, we > experimenters can't even find a control population of any critter to do > experiments to prove that organochlorines are bad things and convince Eh? You could _make_ pure water, and raise a population in that, compared with a population in normal water. -xx- Damien X-)