Runoff of nitrates and nitrites from fields sprayed with chemical fertilizers get into drinking water and cause cancer. can lead to cancer.

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On 13 May 1997, Dr. Bruce Merrifield -- a professor at the Wharton School of Business and former Under Secretary of Commerce with long experience in the chemical industry and other high technology fields -- reiterated concerns he expressed prior to the CWC's ratification in testimony delivered to the Senate Judiciary Committee then considering the Treaty's implementing legislation (see below).

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The techniques come from fields such as evolutionary biology, chemical engineering and physics to capture tumor complexity in a few well-considered equations.

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Founded in 2001 by a pair of Stanford grads, Blue River Technology is using that money to develop an alternative to chemical-intensive agriculture, which is both labor intensive (even with all that spraying fields still need to be weeded) and environmentally toxic.

FORBES: The Robots Are Coming (and they seem to be revolutionizing healthcare, agriculture and education along the way)!