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Back pain can also be a byproduct of difficulties on the job, problems in personal relations, or grief over the death of a loved one. Such "masked depression," notes Psychiatrist Thomas Hackett of Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, can go on for years. Boredom can have similar effects, says New York Osteopath Richard Bachrach. As he explains it: "A lot of my female back patients are bored, lacking in direction. Back trouble gives them an excuse for their behavior. If they're not getting on with their husbands, they can say, 'Oh, I can't have...
Though DMSO was discovered by a Russian scientist in 1866, it attracted little interest until the 1950s when increasing industrial uses were found for it. DMSO, derived as a byproduct in converting trees to paper, is an antifreeze and a versatile solvent for a broad spectrum of chemicals. But scientists were startled to find it also had a remarkable capacity to penetrate skin and tissues and enter the bloodstream; its only apparent side effects were an oysterlike taste in the mouth and a garlicky breath odor...
...bare thousands of acres of jungle in which Viet Cong guerrillas were thought to be hiding. An Army handout for one such mission, Operation Ranch Hand in 1966, assured the troops that "the sprayed chemical is nontoxic to human or animal life." But Agent Orange was contaminated by a byproduct of the manufacturing process, dioxin, which is perhaps the most toxic synthetic chemical known. When a few pounds of it were released into the air by an explosion at an Italian chemical plant in 1976, more than 700 people in the town of Seveso were evacuated. Some of them have...
...more muted tones: "Measures such as those that have been just taken against Sakharov can only bring our disapproval." Unlike Berlinguer, French Party Boss Georges Marchais insisted that the Afghanistan invasion had been justified. This polarization of views between Western Europe's two largest Communist Parties underlined one byproduct of the Afghan crisis: a further fragmentation of Eurocommunism...
Natural gas also seems boundless in Alberta, and it provides a double benefit because sulfur is a byproduct of refining. The National Energy Board puts the province's gas reserves at 60 trillion cu. ft., equal to almost one-third the entire U.S. reserves. Energy developers argue that the real total is many tunes that size, and they are pressing to sell more to the U.S. Canada exports about 1 trillion cu. ft. a year, notably to the Northern Plains states; producers would like this increased threefold...