AP: Children Face Exposure to Pesticides

Domitila Lemus, left, and her granddaughter Ashley are shown in front of Sunnyside Union Elementary School on Thursday, May 10, 2007 in Strathmore, Calif. On Grandparent's Day in November 2006, Lemus accompanied her then 8-year-old granddaughter to school. As the girls lined up behind Sunnyside Elementary, Lemus started coughing. Foul clouds wafted onto the playground from the adjacent orange groves, and two children collapsed in spasm, vomiting on the blacktop. An Associated Press investigation has found that over the past decade, hundreds, possibly thousands, of schoolchildren in California and other agricultural states have been exposed to farm chemicals linked to sickness, brain damage and birth defects. (AP Photo/Gary Kazanjian)

(AP) -- On Grandparents Day, Domitila Lemus accompanied her 8-year-old granddaughter to school. As the girls lined up behind Sunnyside Union Elementary, a foul mist drifted onto the playground from the adjacent orange groves, witnesses say. Lemus started coughing, and two children collapsed in spasms, vomiting on the blacktop.