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Even from the context, it was not clear to me what DDT was. I suspected it was some chemical. I would have appreciated a sentence or two explaining why it is bad and what it does.

What IBM is would typically be clear from the context: "IBM reported record loss in 2nd quarter of 2020".



Maybe this is a generational thing because I did not think that DDT would need any explanation. It at least used to be a household name which everyone recognized.


A sentence like this one in paragraph 7?

> From 1947 to 1982, the nation’s largest manufacturer of DDT — a pesticide so powerful that it poisoned birds and fish — was based in Los Angeles.


You're right. My expectations we wrong. I expected short concise news article, but this seems to be a long-form article. My bad.


Some decades ago, DDT was practically its brand name in the US, because of how well it worked on mosquitos. People used it in their backyards.




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