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...greatest scoop: the key paragraph of a two-year Environmental Protection Agency study recommending that so-called extremely low-frequency fields be classified as "probable human carcinogens" alongside such notorious chemical toxins as PCBs, formaldehyde and dioxin. The recommendation, which could have set off a costly chain of regulatory actions, was deleted from the final draft after review by the White House Office of Policy Development. "The EPA thing is a stunner," says Paul Brodeur, a writer for the New Yorker. "It's a clear case of suppression and politicization of a major health issue by the White House...
...brand new Meyer food market on East Berlin's Leipziger Strasse. She carried a shopping bag with a few meager purchases -- milk, oranges, bread and cheese. She also carried a yellow rosebud. "They're giving these to all the ladies," she said. "They really want our business." The Meyer chain is one of hundreds of West German companies that have moved with lightning speed into a potentially lucrative market: East Germans hold the deutsche mark equivalent of some $70 billion in unspent savings as a result of economic union on July...
...honor to die for in the '80s, is considered tacky. After all, most of the homes are not so much designed as crammed with very expensive clutter. Interior decorators are outre, and making slipcovers and clothes for the children seems to be gaining favor. Fabri-Centers of America, a chain of 620 fabric stores in 35 states, reports that earnings have grown 72% in the past year, from $5.1 million to $8.8 million, while revenues are up 15%, to $333 million. Chairman Alan Rosskamm attributes his company's new growth to a renewed interest in puttering around the house...
...Force officers are already complaining that even the agreed upon START level of 10,000 warheads would leave the U.S. short, with "more targets than weapons available to strike them." General John Chain, commander of the Strategic Air Command, insists that he must have 75 B-2 Stealth bombers, each carrying 16 weapons, to offset the START limit on missile-delivered nukes. "Forty-nine hundred missile-carried warheads," says Chain, "are not enough to destroy the Soviet Union...
...France chain sells sandwiches and baked goods similar to those Au Bon Pain sells...