When the EPA phased out the widespread residential use of chlorpyrifos and other organophosphorus (OP) insecticides in 2000-2001 because of risks to child neurodevelopment, these compounds were largely replaced with pyrethroid insecticides.

A Montana firefighter defeated 1,555 of his colleagues and set a new record in a stair-climbing race to the top of Seattle's Columbia Center. Kory Burgess, 27, climbed 69 floors worth of stairs Sunday at the 18th annual Scott Firefighter Stairclimb in 10 minutes and 55 seconds, beating the previous record of 11:08, The Seattle Times reported Monday. Georgia Sanz Daniels, of Graham Fire and Rescue in Pierce County, Wash., was the top female competitor for the 11th time in 12 years, finishing in 14 minutes and 36 seconds. Race participants, which included firefighters from Canada, Germany and New Zealand, climbed the stairs wearing 50 pounds of firefighting gear.

By AMY RABIDEAU SILVERS Meet Lily Noffke. Arriving fashionably early on Wednesday, Lily became the last baby born at the current Columbia Center. The birthing hospital and its predecessors have served Milwaukee's east side for more than 100 years.

By Amy Rabideau Silvers, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Sep. 15--Meet Lily Noffke. Arriving fashionably early on Wednesday, Lily became the last baby born at the current Columbia Center. The birthing hospital and its predecessors have served Milwaukee's east side for more than 100 years.

By Tri-City Herald, Kennewick, Wash. May 24--Mid-Columbia happenings for the week of Friday, May 25, 2007 Friday, May 25 Nightlife metal bands, 9 p.m., Ray's Golden Lion, off George Washington Way, Richland. Cover: $7. Bluezette, 6 p.m., Bookwalter Winery, off Tulip Lane, Richland. No cover.