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...most investigators agree that although the danger has not been proved, it is too plausible to ignore. The chain of reasoning goes something like this: animals exposed to high doses of these pollutants in the wild develop reproductive abnormalities. Animals exposed to low doses in the lab do too. Humans absorb comparable low doses simply by breathing, drinking and especially eating. Some of the suspect chemicals have physiological effects similar to those of estrogen and other sex hormones, or they at least interact with them; they might reasonably be expected to interfere with processes involving these hormones, such...
...approved but are not yet open. Most of these changes are being forced on Castro from below. "Some want to do it with Fidel; others have dropped that hope," says a political analyst in Havana. "The people are pushing the leadership, but it's like a bike with no chain. You go nowhere until the chain -- the system itself -- is fixed...
...year alone, at least 20,000 titles have been produced in the U.S., and Friedman says the cottage industry is growing at an annual rate of 20%. Doug Biggert, who oversees the supply of some 500 titles at 102 of the Tower record, video and book stores, says the chain sells 4,000 zines a month. The supply always changes, of course. Dozens of new titles pop up and fold each month and focus on everything from the benign to the outre. 8-Track Mind, for instance, extols the aural experience of listening to eight-track tapes. ANSWER...
Only circumstance has protected the Guyanas, as the region is called, from the chain saws and bulldozers leveling forests elsewhere. Though colonized centuries ago by the British, Dutch and French, the area became known for its penal camps and slave rebellions and never had enough appeal to draw huge numbers of European settlers. Today the population of Suriname, Guyana and French Guiana totals only 1.3 million people, nearly all of whom live in coastal cities. Up to now the city dwellers have put little pressure on the forests or the few thousand indigenous Amerindians who live in the woodlands...
...fissionable metal for a bomb core has to be melted down and fashioned into a virtually perfect sphere about the size of a tennis ball -- called a pit -- a tricky process that takes a well- equipped nuclear laboratory. To make the bomb reach critical mass and set off a chain reaction -- nuclear fission -- you have to make the sphere implode in on itself. That requires a bang from about 800 lbs. of conventional explosives, packed around the plutonium. But the implosion has to apply perfectly uniform pressure from all sides, so all the explosives have to go off at exactly...