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Doubts about weak, so-called nonionizing radiation began to grow in 1979, when a study of cancer rates among Colorado schoolchildren found that those who lived near power lines had two to three times as great a chance of developing cancer. The link seemed so unlikely that when power companies paid to have the original study replicated, most scientists expected the results to be negative. In fact, the subsequent study supported the original findings, which have since been buttressed by reports showing increased cancer rates among electrical workers...
Some antitheft systems are decidedly low-tech. Several grocery stores, including Cub Foods in Colorado Springs, Colo., are placing life-size cardboard figures of local police officers next to such tempting items as film and cosmetics. The cutouts cost Cub $500 apiece but have reduced shoplifting in the store 30% in the past six weeks. "We don't have to feed them, pay them, give them vacation or worker's comp," says assistant manager L.J. Stevens. "We just clean them off once a week with a dustcloth...
Time and time again, the Environmental Protection Agency has been outflanked by White House officials more concerned with economic growth than environmental protection. So the EPA's decision last week to block construction of Colorado's Two Forks Dam was a victory not only for picnickers and sportsmen but also for the Administration's in-house conservationists...
...turned Cheesman Canyon into a vast man-made lake, covering an area between two forks of the South Platte River known to outdoorsmen as the "St. Peter's Basilica of trout fishing." The EPA decided to block the dam because it would destroy a valuable wildlife and recreational area. Colorado officials condemned the decision as "shortsighted." But biologist Carse Pustmueller of the National Audubon Society applauded the move. "The project is absolutely not viable under the Clean Water Act," said Pustmueller. "This whole Two Forks saga has educated everybody that water is finite. We can't just keep building more...
Sometimes the medium gets in the way of the message. Last week the Colorado chapter of Greenpeace unveiled an antinuclear billboard blitz near the idle Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant outside Denver -- and ran afoul of another environmental group: Citizens Against Billboards on Highway...