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...another juror following a quiz session to determine whether jurors were prejudiced by last week's Brooklyn arrests. Duffy did not give a reason for dropping the juror but said it wasn't related to last week's events. Tensions over the hometown trial increased some more after a bomb scare Monday at the World Trade Center, which forced the evacuation of several hundred people. It turned out that the package had exposed wires but was not a bomb. Prosecutors hope to prove Yousef and suspected cohort Eyad Ismoil were responsible for driving the bomb-laden van into the trade...
Your article on the medical effects of atom-bomb fallout [SCIENCE, June 23] stated that "the 120,000 people who survived Hiroshima and Nagasaki are not being cut down in large numbers by cancer and other radiation diseases. In fact, by some measures they seem to be outliving contemporaries who were not exposed." This statement incorrectly implies that radiation exposure has increased the life-span of atom-bomb survivors. The survey referred to is the U.S.-Japan Radiation Effects Research Foundation study. It includes 93,000 survivors who were in Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the time of the bombings...
...studies demonstrate that radiation-associated excess risk from cancer or other diseases persists for at least 50 years, and strongly suggest that this elevated risk continues throughout life. Our data do not show that atom-bomb survivors are living longer than comparable, unexposed groups. DALE PRESTON, Chief, Statistics Kiyohiko Mabuchi, Chief, Epidemiology Radiation Effects Research Foundation Hiroshima...
...began asking questions. A recently uncovered Army report from 1972 suggests the sheep died from a lethal combination of nerve-gas traces and pesticides, the mixture some experts believe is responsible for Gulf War syndrome. Years later came another piece of disturbing news: it turned out that the nuclear-bomb tests conducted by the Pentagon in next-door Nevada from 1951 to 1962 were not safe after all. President George Bush acknowledged as much in 1990, and since then the U.S. has paid $67 million to 1,338 of the "downwinders," many of whom live in Utah and believe their...
...DOMESTIC BOMB, BUT BOFFO ABROAD...