she liked it enough that she sent it to the magazine editor in chief, william shawn. shawn ultimately added it all through carson's books that were serialized in "the new yorker." so that included the sea around us in 1851, then her third and final book about the feet, which is called the edge of the sea, which was in the magazine in 1955.e/ a 10 carson started work ona/ao sandy spring, it is clear whatever she did was going to be in "the new yorker" first. so that i worked out in close consultation with william shawn at the magazine when she started working on that book. she initially didn't want to write "silent spring." even though she was concerned about pesticides that something should be done, she thought someone else should do it. one of the things that inspired the book was a lawsuit filed in 1958 group of landowners on long island in new york who sued the state of new york to try to get them to stop spraying ddt over the property. carson got "the new yorker" should write about this trial, this lawsuit msi let journalists into her and not up her alley, so she

was going to bo in the new yorker first so that was all worked out in close consultation with william shawnmagazine when she started working on that book. she initially didn't want to write "silent spring". even though she was very concerned about pesticides and she thought something should be done she thought somebody else should do it. one of the things that sort of inspired the book was a lawsuit filed in 1958 by a group of landowners on long island in new york who wanted to -- who sued the state of new york to try to get and to start spraying ddt over their property and carson thought the new yorkers should write about this lawsuit and it sounded like journalism to her and she tried to convince e.b. white to cover this trial for the new yorker and white who live in maine as cars and did and was concerned about pesticides throwback and said i don't have time to do it but you should. the project was in fits and starts took off from there. >> you mentioned first use of ddt. >> i am sorry? >> up here. the first to use of ddt in the u.s.. where was it manufactured originally? >> it was synth

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his mother who prince william county police ruled committed suicide in 2008 and his exgiver friend, 22-year-old shawn mason. she was found murder in her condo. the two also had a son who is now 13. at the time, police told fox 5 they didn't have the evidence they needed or a suspect. >> well, it is frustrating not having the weapon. not being able to come to a closure and most of all, i know it's painful for the family. >> reporter: in march during a heated custody battle over prince court documents provided by mcleod show the same detective testified rams was a person of interest in mason's murder and circumstances that point to him a being a suspect in that murder and mr. rams could be charged at any time. rams has never been charged in any of the three deaths. he did not answer calls to a cell phone number given to us and hi attorneys didn't return our calls either. what mcleod can't understand is someone who is a person of interest in a murder could get unsupervised visits with a child. >> i know my son was a healthy little boy. i was chasing him around the grocery store that morning and turned u

williams and 21-year- old brittany washington. they broadsided a mini van carrying the boy. >> a long distance live saving injury knee brings an abused german shepherd to california. shawn bennett on the people who stepped in to help. >> meet thor. >> if you leave a dog to die, that dog is not worthy and you can see he is worthy. >> reporter: the bog may have been abused and was weary underweight. >> he wayed 46-pounds, he should weigh close to 100. >> reporter: thor is struggling to eat. teresa says he smashes his food with his left paw and pushes it into the portion of his mouth he can open. >> i was hurt to think somebody could go to bed knowing me was starving. >> reporter: teresa tells us alaska airlines gave thor a free ticket to san francisco to get help. >> i can't believe they let me walk on the plane with this dog. >> reporter: doctors in alaska took a cat scan of thor's law. vets in rancho cordova will look to see what is wrong with the dog's jaw. >> we are going to go in there and remove the bone fusing his jaw together. >> reporter: the reason he was taken to rancho cordova is because of recommendation, because of the canine german shepherd involved in a sh