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"Perhaps most importantly of all, both immigration and the emergence of the leisure travel industry has meant that more people have the chance to see medicine from other cultures in practice, on the ground, with their own eyes—to judge for themselves if qi or prana are more or less credible, comprehensible, and intellectually attractive than neurotransmitters or the Krebs cycle." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"They were both orange-robed disciples of his free-love cult, initially based on a ranch in Oregon called Rajneeshpuram, and then, following Rajneesh's deportation for violating immigration laws, at his ashram in Pune, India. She speaks fondly of their travels in search of perfect mangoes and meditation. I rent my own beach bungalow, also home to some lizards, which I hear scampering around all night. Before bed, I flip through some guidebooks on fruitarianism." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Customs and immigration forms require that all fruits, food, plants or plant parts be declared. Importing an endangered species, even a sustainably harvested one, is a process fraught with preemptory guilt. As the plane descends into Montreal's airport, a bubble-butt of a coco-de-mer throbbing in my checked luggage, I take a deep breath, trying to steady my mildly irregular heartbeat. Staring at the declaration form, I consider lying. In the event of a search, I reason, I could try to convince them that it's a sculpture—some sort of exotic erotic folk craft." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "In 2007, immigration agents in Huixtla, Mexico, were tipped off by the smell of human sweat when searching an eighteen-wheeler full of bananas. They found ninety-four people hiding among the fruit crates. The bust revealed that Carlos Cesar Ferrera, "King of the Trailers," had been overseeing a network of hundreds of trucks carrying human cargo. Ferrera would approach truckers and ask whether, for a fee of five thousand to ten thousand dollars they'd be willing to carry what he called a "heavier load of bananas." The majority of smugglers don't know they're smugglers. " - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.) "Fruits from South America, Asia, Africa, the Caribbean and the Middle East have been trickling into every one else's diet as waves of immigration and travel have exposed Westerners to exotic delicacies. Fresh figs arrived in Montreal a few years ago. Until 2006, only 5 percent of Americans had ever tasted a pomegranate, but that number is changing rapidly. The past half century has seen a surge in availability, despite decreased quality. This was, perhaps, a necessary transition." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"This image typifies American attitudes towards immigration as a font of disease, and the new public health policies, shaped by both Sanitarian ideals and germ thinking which emerged from them. ever-larger and more disorienting hospitals. Medicine had gone 'macho' once again; many of its practitioners dreamed of magic bullet cures and medical firsts. Not all were so sanguine; concern that science was driving a wedge between doctors and their patients was also widespread. Were doctors becoming slaves to the laboratory and abandoning the bedside?" - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.) "Although a major vehicle of transmission, Chinese immigration was not the only route by which Tiger Balm and other non-western medicines found their way into European and North American homes. Burma, Singapore, and Hong Kong were, of course, British colonies when the Aw brothers began to build their Tiger Balm empire. Like their predecessors over the centuries, some British civil servants investigated and took up indigenous medical products for their own use. The older routes of transmission still functioned?" - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"A high degree of "cultural mobility," Syme had concluded, was also a risk factor for heart disease, and so he wondered how far, independent of any changes in their diet, the stress of immigration and acculturation would affect the health of Japanese-American men. In the end, as Syme later recalled, he and Stallones "were both surprised by the findings." The Japanese men who immigrated to California turned out to have rates of coronary heart disease five times higher than the rates in Japan, while immigrants to Hawaii had rates intermediate between those in Japan and California." - Anne Harrington, The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine (Get the book.)

"Officers of the immigration and Naturalization Service (since March i, 2003, the Bureau of Citizenship and immigration Services), for example, seem to relate easily to carpal tunnel syndrome, likely because of their own experience with keying in data and hand stamping documents for hours at a stretch. People often ask whether my field is a new branch of health care, along the lines of modern subspecialties such as sports medicine, genetic counseling, and bariatrics (the treatment of obesity)." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"He was, however, a remarkable and curious observer of cross-cultural interactions, living in a country and a historical moment transformed by immigration." - Roberta Bivins, Alternative Medicine?: A History (Get the book.)

"The widespread urge to withdraw will feed rising xenophobia, already inflamed by illegal immigration, unfair trade practices, and leaking borders. Playing to populist sentiment, politicians around the country will respond enthusiastically to calls for restrictions on foreigners. This will further feed a brain drain, as scientists, students, and other temporary visa holders are left with little choice but to uproot and go elsewhere, further sapping America's economic resiliency." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"Vega discovered that the rate of mental disorders steadily grew after immigration, so that Mexican immigrants who had been in the United States for more than thirteen years had nearly the same rate of mental disorders as native-born Americans. Vega concluded, "Mexicans are coming from a much more integrated family system. There are tremendous benefits of that in terms of everyday psychological resilience. . . . They are much more likely to be in a situation where people help each other out. . . . There is a cost for this greater personal and economic freedom." - Bruce E. Levine, Surviving America's Depression Epidemic: How to Find Morale, Energy, and Community in a World Gone Crazy (Get the book.)

"Eventually, fed by a mood of desperation and growing public anger, restrictions on trade, finance, investment, and immigration will almost certainly intensify. Authorities and ordinary citizens will likely scrutinize the cross-border movement of Americans and outsiders alike, and lawmakers may even call for a general crackdown on nonessential travel. Meanwhile, many nations will make transporting or sending funds to other countries exceedingly difficult." - Michael J. Panzner, Financial Armageddon: Protecting Your Future from Four Impending Catastrophes (Get the book.)

"Moreover, despite a variety of ongoing symptoms, the majority of these former employees were too fearful of problems with immigration authorities to allow themselves the luxury of pursuing legal action over any potential long-term health effects from cyanide exposure. deferred enforcement Extreme examples of ineffective worker protection such as these teach us that even when we eventually take action to control a hazard, those who benefited from an absence of controls may adopt a final course of action geared to negate any possible success." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.) "Not long before he died, Haber met with Chaim Weizmann and was considering immigration to Palestine.61 chlorine after world war ii The industrial chemistry and technology of manufacturing and handling chlorine gas, developed for bleaching in the nineteenth century, had far-reaching effects in the first half of the twentieth century. The work with chlorine was the proving ground for battlefield chemical warfare in World War I, and it ultimately inspired the research and development that facilitated mass civilian extermination in World War II." - Paul D. Blanc, M.D., How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace (Get the book.)

"I told her that I thought they should be aware that they could be held liable for the behavior of the conductors or the condition of the track, if any of those softhearted disabilities or liberal immigration activists found out about this. She was still guarded, but she thawed enough to give me the name of their Vice President of Safety and Compliance, Gerry. He returned my phone call in a week and we discussed the issues from a business perspective. I told him that they had an opportunity to be a good corporate citizen and fend off activists and lawsuits at the same time." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"He was put in the queue to be turned back because he had been blinded in one eye, and only got into the country with the help of a small bribe given to an immigration officer. As a rule, those who appeared fit, had good eyesight and hearing, loved the sea, and had the lightest skin were allowed to enter.16 America, like France and many other nations at the time, would protect its future population by keeping the weak ones out." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Chapter 10 PAINT PIGMENTS AND OTHER LETHAL POISONS After the Civil War, American farmland expanded rapidly. immigration from Europe caused both the population living in cities and the ranks of new farmers to swell. Many of these immigrants who took up farming knew little about it and apparently even less about the natural pest and fertility solutions that many farmers used." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"This is of therapeutic use for blocking the immigration and the autolysis of phagocytes in inflammatory processes and thereby producing an antiphlogistic effect. indications and usage COLCHICUM BULBS, SEEDS AND FLOWERS Approved by Commission E: m Gout ¦ Mediterranean fever (brucellosis) Unproven Uses: Due to the plant's toxicity, internal application is seldom used with the exception of acute attacks of gout and familial Mediterranean fever (brucellosis). Efficacy for these uses appears plausible." - Thomson Healthcare, Inc., PDR for Herbal Medicines, Fourth Edition (Get the book.)

"By 1800, 40 percent of the English population lived in cities, and immigration was always held out as an escape route from the low wages and deplorable living conditions that prevailed in most of urban England.9 In Europe, newly enriched capitalists and the nobles seized large tracts of land by means of laws, armed force, and religious conversion of the Reformation (beginning in 1519) in the years following the great plagues of the 1400s. In North America, the European monarchies and the land speculators duplicated the landgrab of the enclosure movement in Europe." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"A decade later, as the "expert eugenics witness" to the House Committee on immigration and Naturalization, Laughlin provided scientific "evidence" on the damaging impact of race mixing. He contended that populations of southern and eastern Europeans, Mediterraneans and Russian Jews were rife with defects and should be kept out of the American gene pool. Northern Europeans provided better genetic fodder. Based on this analysis, Congress passed the Johnson-Reed Act in 1924, banning immigrants from "weaker" stock and forcibly sterilizing citizens deemed deficient." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.) "Noting that immigration laws were already protecting the American gene pool from defectives, he urged sterilization of the mentally and criminally deficient. In the throes of a divorce, he left Michigan in 1929 and founded what is still one of the world's largest colonies of mice for genetics research, at the Jackson laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine.That same year he became managing director of the ASCC, an appointment that put the pipe-smoking Little on the cover of Time magazine. Within a short time, the ASCC was struggling." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"All of the major issues of the twenty-first century—globalization, immigration, women's rights, pollution, indigenous rights, and self-determination—are being played out through this cup of coffee in villages and remote areas around the world. The coffee trade is immense, second only to that of oil in its value. It is also complex, with several levels of middlemen removing the 28 million growers in fifty distant countries far from the ultimate consumers, far from your cup. There are as many different cultures growing coffee as there are coffee-growing regions in the world." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"Its population density, already the highest in the world, is exacerbated by heavy immigration. It has to import all its raw materials, water, and oil. It receives no foreign aid whatsoever and until recently was still a Western colony. It has an authoritarian government. The other is also densely populated, but it has lots of arable land and natural resources. Free from colonial rule, it has also been the recipient of about $55 billion in aid over the past 40 years. It is a functioning democracy and the World Bank's pet project.21 Which do you bet would be better off?" - William Bonner, Lila Rajiva, Mobs, Messiahs, and Markets: Surviving the Public Spectacle in Finance and Politics (Agora Series) (Get the book.)

"Ellis Island immigration processing center opens. • Lead arsenate is introduced as a pesticide to control the gypsy moth. It becomes the most popular pesticide in the United States until the early 1950s. 1893 Sales of South Carolina phosphate exceed 600,000 tons. Fertilizer ad campaigns are finally proven effective. 1894 The Panic (economic depression) of 1894 causes additional farm losses. 900,000 tons of sodium nitrate are used in Europe alone." - Will Allen, The War on Bugs (Get the book.)

"At the beginning of the Famine, immigration of the destitute was discouraged, as it had been for fifty years—there was a method of control involving minimum fares on ships from Europe. Before 1847 many of the Irish who entered the United States walked across the Canadian frontier. But once the Famine was widely reported, considerations of humanity overcame public policy. In the fifteen years between the Famine and the American Civil War Catholic Irish incomers reached a total of more than 100,000 a year. " - Henry Hobhouse, Seeds of Change: Six Plants That Transformed Mankind (Get the book.)

"The chief immigration station of the United States was on Ellis Island from 1892 to 1943, a time when millions of people, especially from Europe, came to the United States. Ellis Island stands near the Statue of Liberty, which made an impressive sight for people approaching the United States for the first time. 1990 marked the opening of the Ellis Island immigration Museum. Falwell, Jerry (fawl-wel) A religious and political leader of the twentieth century, who rose to power in the 1970s." - James Trefil, Joseph F. Kett, and E. D. Hirsch, The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Get the book.)

"The first great wave of immigration, in the mid-i8oos, had brought more than 5 million Irish and Germans to this country. Now a second great wave of immigration was underway, with nearly 1 million immigrants arriving yearly in the first decade of the twentieth century. And this time the immigrants were even more "foreign"—Jews, Italians, Slavs. The ruling class— white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs)—saw that the United States was undergoing a great transformation, one that threatened their dominance. The country was becoming less Protestant, less English, and less white." - Robert Whitaker, Mad in America: Bad Science, Bad Medicine and the Enduring Mistreatment of the Mentally Ill (Get the book.)

"In America particularly, offering surplus ecological carrying capacity to Europe's saturated habitats, a massive wave of immigration between 1880 and 1920 sustained the idea that growth was a permanent feature of the modern economic landscape. The business cycle might go boom and bust, but when the next boom occurred, there would always be more. More growth. More available energy. More commodities. More finished goods. More grain and beef. More immigrants coming from the constrained ecologies of Europe. More demand for things. More jobs. More production." - James Howard Kunstler, The Long Emergency: Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century (Get the book.)

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