Word: carbons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...public health seem to be. Indeed most specialists in the new field of environmental disease believe that 85% of all cancers are caused by exposure to substances in the air or water. These include everything from compounds in tobacco and automotive fumes to asbestos, vinyl chloride, the pesticide dieldrin, carbon tetrachloride and chloroform...
...experts, Donald Oilman and J. Murray Mitchell Jr., argue that it may only be a random fluctuation, rather than part of any fixed cycle. In fact until a few years ago, many scientists suspected that the earth would heat up, largely because of mankind's increasing output of carbon dioxide. A byproduct of fossil-fuel burning, the gas lets sunlight pass down through the atmosphere but prevents the escape of infra-red heat waves that are radiated from the earth's surface. Thus the gas adds to the planet's heat store...
...summer resident of nearby Jackson, Wyo., has begun a petition drive to control what she calls the new "scorched earth policy." Says she: "They have burned up one of the most beautiful areas in Teton County." And almost as bad, the fire is causing massive air pollution by sending carbon monoxide and ash into the atmosphere...
...Clean Air Act of 1970 mandated a 90 per cent cut in carbon monoxide and hydrocarbon emissions for 1975 cars. It also set a 1976 deadline for a similar cut in harder-to-control nitrogen oxide emissions. Both deadlines have since been extended to 1977-78 by the Energy Emergency...
Died. Anne Sexton, 45, suburban housewife who turned to poetry during a nervous breakdown 18 years ago and proceeded to write seven books of searingly personal verse, including the Pulitzer-prizewinning Live or Die (1966); apparently by her own hand (carbon-monoxide inhalation); in Weston, Mass. Clearly intrigued in her poems by the thought of her own death, Sexton survived a number of suicide attempts. After the 1963 suicide of Fellow Poet Sylvia Plath, Sexton recalled discussions the two had had in the late 1950s: "We talked about death with burned-up intensity, both of us drawing to it like...