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Science News November 6, 2004 Janet Raloff	Pesticide Disposal Goes Green A chemist and his colleagues at Carnegie-Mellon University (CMU) have been developing catalysts that might safely degrade dangerous stores of pesticides so that they pose less of a hazard to people and farm animals.
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