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* Student movements expanded in 1964 with the "Free Speech Movement," which began at the ultra-liberal University of California at Berkeley and began to protest a number of perceived injustices.
 
* Student movements expanded in 1964 with the "Free Speech Movement," which began at the ultra-liberal University of California at Berkeley and began to protest a number of perceived injustices.
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Finally, in 1970, the Nixon Administration founded the Environmental Protection Agency ostensibly to conserve natural resources and reduce pollution.  The EPA quickly banned DDT on unproven environmental grounds (incited by the discredited book the "Silent Spring," by Rachel Carson).  Critics say the ban on DDT, which continues to this day, has resulted in a the needed deaths of millions of Africans from malaria because DDT is so effective in stopping malaria.
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Finally, in 1970, the Nixon Administration founded the Environmental Protection Agency (the "EPA") ostensibly to conserve natural resources and reduce pollution.  The EPA quickly banned DDT on unproven environmental grounds (incited by the discredited book the "Silent Spring," by Rachel Carson).  Critics say the ban on DDT, which continues to this day, has resulted in a the needed deaths of millions of Africans from malaria because DDT is so effective in stopping malaria.
    
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