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Could your computer be killing you? That question has been the subject of a fierce debate among scientists and computer users ever since Paul Brodeur raised the issue last year in the New Yorker magazine. Brodeur laid out an impressive array of evidence linking electromagnetic fields like those surrounding computer monitors to unusually high incidences of miscarriages, birth defects and cancer. But throughout the debate the position of the computer industry has been unanimous and unambiguous: it denied that any such health hazards could possibly exist...
...major computer publication has broken ranks. The July issue of Macworld, an independently owned magazine for users of Apple Macintosh computers, features a cover story by Brodeur and an analysis of the magnetic fields generated by ten popular monitors. The results are disturbing. At a % distance of 10 cm (4 in.) from the screen, Macworld measured emissions that were, in some cases, ten times as high as those linked with cancer in children...
...mile power line that is under construction. But residents became so upset that the government ordered a halt to work on a segment of the line. Fears were further heightened last month when The New Yorker magazine published a series on "The Hazards of Electromagnetic Fields." Author Paul Brodeur charged utility companies and public health officials with trying to gloss over the threat to health posed by power lines and computer terminals...
...answered back with a run in the bottom of the opening frame, as centerfielder John Brodeur drew a lead-off walk, was sacrificed to second, and scored on a single by clean-up hitter Peter Parente...
Alexandra Edsall '89, Elizabeth Ruddick '87, Jean Alonso '59, Lawrence Hage '56, Phyllis Brown, Glenn Hoffman, Naizhu Lui, Jack Brodeur, Joanne Neusner, Cliff Cohn, Laura Foner and Steve Neacham submitted an "admission to sufficient evidence." They agreed to perform 10 hours of community service, and the court will leave their cases open for three months...