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sway2sway
10-20-2007, 10:17 PM
check this out:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/21/magazine/21wwln-idealab-t.html?ref=magazine

"...found that the rise and fall of lead-exposure rates seemed to match the arc of violent crime, but with a 20-year lag — just long enough for children exposed to the highest levels of lead in 1973 to reach their most violence-prone years in the early ’90s, when crime rates hit their peak."

Miss Shark
10-21-2007, 02:35 PM
I don't want to read that one. I'm really concerned about all this lead in toys, with 3 little ones always putting things in their mouths. Maybe I will that's an interesting correlation.