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Calendar Friday, June 2,2000 International Coffee Hour, sponsored by the International Students Association, begins a 4 p.m. in Gerlinger Lounge. Call 346-4387 for information. Women’s Open Mic, sponsored by the ASUO Women’s Center, begins at 7 p.m. in the EMU Ben Linder Room. Call 346-4095 for information. Cultural Forum sponsors the 3-D movie “Revenge of the Creatures" (sequel to “The Creature from the Black La goon”), featuring Clint Eastwood in his first-ever film role. Film begins at 9:30 p.m. in the EMU Amphitheater. Oregon Ballroom Dance: Spring formal, with live music, themed decorations and refreshments. Dress up or casu al; leather-soled shoes advised. No partner needed. Lessons during the first hour. 7:30-11:30 p.m. Ballroom, Erb Memorial Union, 1222 E. 13th Ave. $7 general public, $5 students and UO faculty. For information, browse http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~ballroom/ or call (541) 346-6025. Humanities Work-in-Progress Talk: Kevin Donald, Anthropology, discusses "A Crisis of Modernity-A Possibility of Hope: Anthropological Interpretations of Case Histories in the American Criminal Justice System." Noon-1 p.m. Room 159, Prince Lucien Campbell Hall, 1415 Kincaid St. Free. For information, browse http://darkwing.uore gon.edu/~humanctr/or call (541) 346-3934. • EPA to put ban on Dursban WASHINGTON — One of the most commonly used insecticides around homes and gardens will be banned for household use, sources said Thursday. In line with a 1996 law that low ered the acceptable exposure lim its for such chemicals, the Envi ronmental Protection Agency concluded that chlorpyrifos, sold under the trade names Dursban and Lorsban, can no longer be safely used where children are ex posed to the residue, said an offi cial familiar with the decision. Farmers probably won’t be al lowed to spray apple trees and grape vines after they bloom, but other agricultural applications will continue without new restric tions, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The chemical is most heavily used on wheat and corn crops, but it’s also been used for years in doors and outside to kill termites, roaches, ants, fleas and other pests. Some 20 million to 24 mil lion tons of the chemical are ap plied annually nationwide. The ban targets applications around the home because they represent a more direct and there fore higher level of exposure, the official said. The chemical’s maker, Dow AgroSciences of Indianapolis, said in a statement that it stands be hind the product’s safety but “the additional restrictions that the agency will require will be man ageable” for the company. The chemical is used on 75 per cent of the nation’s apple crop, so EPA’s decision will force growers to switch to alternative pesticides. With the new restriction, “the di etary risk issue is well under con trol,” said Allen Jennings, who manages pesticide policy for the Agriculture Department. The restriction on the chemi cal’s use with grapes is unlikely to have much impact because chlor pyrifos is generally applied when the vines are dormant, he said. The agency is to release new es timates of the chemical’s hazards, based on experiments showing the substance can cause brain damage in fetal rats. The agency conclud ed the compound poses no imme diate threat to public health and won’t order a recall of products containing it. Normally, the EPA sets the limit at one-one-hundredth of the ievel at which there are no detectable ef fects on an animal. Under the 1996 law, that level must be 10 times lower if children are exposed to the chemical. “The rules have changed, but the safety of chlorpyrifos products hasn’t,” Dow’s statement said. 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