![In the summer of 2016, 100 teenage girls in the Salinas Valley slipped silicone bracelets onto their wrists and kept them there for a week. Around the same time, 92 preschoolers in Oregon accessorized the same way. The bands also found their way onto the wrists of farmworkers in Peru as well as Houston residents […]](https://www.mercurynews.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/MCH-L-EXPOSURES-0628-02.jpg?w=128 "In the summer of 2016, 100 teenage girls in the Salinas Valley slipped silicone bracelets onto their wrists and kept them there for a week. Around the same time, 92 preschoolers in Oregon accessorized the same way. The bands also found their way onto the wrists of farmworkers in Peru as well as Houston residents […]")
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