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...vital gas being destroyed is a form of oxygen in which the molecules have three atoms instead of the normal two. That simple structure enables ozone to absorb ultraviolet radiation -- a process that is crucial to human health. UV rays can make the lens of the eye cloud up with cataracts, which bring on blindness if untreated. The radiation can cause mutations in DNA, leading to skin cancers, including the often deadly melanoma. Estimates released last week by the United Nations Environment Program predict a 26% rise in the incidence of nonmelanoma skin cancers worldwide if overall ozone levels drop...
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...genetics. Because no cure for Huntington's exists, a positive test result is like a death sentence. Though it cannot foretell when the first symptoms will appear or how long the victim will suffer, the outcome is certain. On the other hand, a negative result can dispel the cloud of anxiety that hangs over every member of a Huntington's family. Before advising people to take the test, Wexler carefully probes each person's attitude and outlook. "Some people can cope very well with a positive result," she says. "Others almost certainly...
...nonetheless anxious that they should realize that I am not afraid of them and that the U.S. will no more submit to bullying than it will bully." Japanese- American dealings are often distorted by cultural misperceptions -- and the Japanese know how to maneuver artfully within the cloud of their own mystique. Both sides will profit if the air is cleared now by some painful truths...
Indeed Yale played the final period as if it was on cloud nine. The Bulldogs outshot their guests 17-7 in the last stanza and controlled the boards...