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...confine itself to one office or spread through an entire building. Some workers will get it; others won't. Symptoms are usually confined to the workplace, but in some cases, like Polansky's, they can hang on for years, even after a worker has left a building. According to Dr. Claudia Miller of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, repeated exposure to toxins given off by molds and bacteria may hypersensitize people to the point that they react to even low levels of these toxins. It may also weaken their tolerance to everyday chemicals...
...bacteria to volatile organic compounds like formaldehyde. A 1996 Cornell University study found the problem was even worse: in every one of 35 buildings surveyed for the study, at least 20% of the occupants had experienced symptoms. "It's very difficult to find a problem-free building," says Dr. Alan Hedge, author of the Cornell study and co-author of the book Keeping Buildings Healthy (John Wiley & Sons...
That night the pain was so great that it caused her to go into mild shock. Athletic Trainer Maura McCarthy and Dr. Wilbur Boike-father of thenfreshman guard Kristen Boike-tended to Janowski and called an ambulance. She was eventually taken to Stanford Medical Center...
...typical Internet junkie is a teenage male with Coke-bottle glasses and a pocket protector who speaks Klingon, guess again. A study presented to the British Psychological Society Tuesday claims that the new archetype of the hard-core user is much older -- and a woman. According to Dr. Helen Petrie, a psychologist at the University of Hertfordshire, roughly equal numbers of men and women from among the 445 individuals surveyed identified themselves as addicts, but women "seemed to be more addicted to the Net than men were. They showed more positive feelings about using the Net and higher usage...
DIED. FREDDIE YOUNG, 96, cinematographer; in London. His visual flair created memorable images in films by John Ford and David Lean. Young won Oscars for his work in Lawrence of Arabia, Dr. Zhivago and Ryan's Daughter...