Cotton is considered the world's dirtiest crop due to its heavy use of pesticides. Aldicarb, cotton's second best-selling insecticide and most acutely poisonous to humans and wildlife, is still used in 25 countries, including the U.S., where 16 states reported it in their groundwater.
Frances Farmer (1913â1970) Actress | Soundtrack | Writer. Born in Seattle, Frances Farmer studied drama at the University of Washington, Seattle. In 1935, she went to Hollywood where she secured a seven-year contract with Paramount.
Most well known today for her short story The Yellow Wallpaper, which is compulsory reading in most high schools, Charlotte Perkins Gilman was also a well-known early animal rights activist and feminist author of utopian science fiction. Born in 1860, she published Moving the Mountain in 1911 and Herland in 1915.