In a message dated 99-04-23 12:26:24 EDT, Michael Perelman writes: << Golf courses employee an enormous amount of toxic materials, especially pesticides and herbicides. >> and all those pesticides and herbicides are now being linked to breast cancer -- breast cancer lumps have several hundred times the concentrations of pesticides as other tissue in the body. but, the american cancer society has never funded research into this issue -- all the research has been done by underfunded academics working independently. $64,000 question: why has the american cancer society ignored this independent research? Oh, well, um, maybe it has something to do with the fact that the bulk of funding for breast cancer research comes from several European chemical companies who produce -- aha, pesticides. maggie coleman [EMAIL PROTECTED] p.s someplace in my mess of files I have some printed articles about this stuff if anyone is interested.