Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rivers, once navigated by 5,000-ton ships, are now so choked by sand bars that a canoe can barely nose through. Bridges cross dry gulches overgrown with weeds and shrubs. Many once plentiful plants and birds are gone, and human beings who live there are disfigured by skin cancer. The scene is 300 sq. mi. in the Brazilian state of Espirito Santo, a once lush strip north of Rio de Janeiro that is now on its way to becoming a desert. The cause of this ecological disaster...
...Fifteen cancer specialists from the People's Republic of China visited the Medical School last week, the first such American visit to be sponsored by a private organization...
...visit, sponsored by the American Cancer Society, was part of a three-week study tour that brought the oncologists to New York, Washington, Los Angeles and other cities...
...Chinese physicians' visit to Harvard included tours of the Cox Cancer Center at Massachusetts General Hospital, the Sidney Farber Cancer Institute and the oncology ward at Children's Hospital Medical Center...
...Nazis who were eager to channel their war loot into venture capital. The reputed leader of ODESSA was Otto Skorzeny, famous as the Waffen SS officer in charge of the 1943 raid on an Apennine ski resort that freed the deposed Mussolini from his captors. Skorzeny died of cancer...