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This led to the conclusion that the gene suspected as causal in Burkitt's lymphoma was necessary but not sufficient for cancer, Leder says. It was also concluded that the gene could cause cancer in other mammals, and in regions of the body other than the blood...
...gained some qualified support from the Environmental Protection Agency. In the executive summary of a new scientific review, released in draft form late last week, the EPA has put forward what amounts to the most serious government warning to date. The agency tentatively concludes that scientific evidence "suggests a causal link" between extremely low- frequency electromagnetic fields -- those having very long wavelengths -- and leukemia, lymphoma and brain cancer. While the report falls short of classifying ELF fields as probable carcinogens, it does identify the common 60-hertz magnetic field as "a possible, but not proven, cause of cancer in humans...
...there, however, a direct causal relationship between heavy-metal music and Satanism, as Cardinal O'Connor contended? Father Rento, the New Jersey expert, does not make such a claim. But he does provide carefully couched support for O'Connor's concern. Music, says the priest, "is one of the factors helping to create a climate in which the hitherto unthinkable becomes thinkable...
...causal relationship between birth to a Harvard graduate and increased odds of admission to Harvard is tenuous at best. You are correct in referring to children of Harvard alumni as "the fortuitously-born." Such children were truly fortunate to be born to parents who, as indicated by their attendance to Harvard, value education and intellectual pursuits...
...fellow traveler in this epidemic of addiction? Do my affectionate, albeit distant, ties to 1960s-style permissiveness render me as culpable as Bennett claims? Or is my comfortable, middle-class life so far removed from inner-city crack houses and the Colombian drug cartel that any allegation of causal nexus represents little more than politically motivated hyperbole...