Word: cancer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...convinced that only when children born with birth defects, cancer-stricken young and middle-aged adults, etc. reach the point of impairing industry's productivity and profit, will the giant corporations say stop the pollution-and then it will be stopped...
Public Verdict. Who is right in the nuclear debate? Or in the arguments over aerosol sprays and supersonic aircraft and their effects on the ozone layer? Or in the controversy surrounding food additives and cancer? Too often those who must ultimately decide these issues are likely to be swayed by rhetoric rather than by scientific fact because there is no easy way to sort out the facts in arguments between scientists. Physicist Arthur Kantrowitz, 62, thinks that he has a solution to the dilemma. Kantrowitz, head of Avco Everett Research Laboratory in Everett, Mass., and one of the key engineers...
Died. Percy Faith, 67, Canadian-born conductor-composer-arranger whose soothing sounds comforted the generation brought up on quiet evenings at home with live radio music; of cancer; in Los Angeles...
...published in the New England Journal of Medicine, found that women who had taken the pill for at least two years had a 60 per cent lower chance of developing benign breast tumors than those who did not. Women who have benign tumors are more likely to develop breast cancer than other women...
Some critics of the Concorde have charged it would reduce the concentration of ozone in the stratosphere that protects the earth from ultraviolet rays, thereby increasing the incidence of nonfatal skin cancer. Coleman judged that the stratospheric impact of the 16 months of test flights would be "minuscule," and the slight risk of causing additional cases of the disease-which he called "speculation"-was not enough to reject landing rights for the Concorde...