Word: elfs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...forward what amounts to the most serious government warning to date. The agency tentatively concludes that scientific evidence "suggests a causal link" between extremely low- frequency electromagnetic fields -- those having very long wavelengths -- and leukemia, lymphoma and brain cancer. While the report falls short of classifying ELF fields as probable carcinogens, it does identify the common 60-hertz magnetic field as "a possible, but not proven, cause of cancer in humans...
...often they don't seem to like each other much. But Helmut Kohl and his Foreign Minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, have depended on one another for the success of their unification dream. If Kohl played the hearty salesman for German unity, Genscher was the quiet strategist. For years the elf-faced minister has been arguing that Mikhail Gorbachev truly wants peace and that the West should seize this moment to end the division of Europe...
...bombarding the screen. The strongest emissions, it turns out, are from the sides, the backs and the tops of the monitors, suggesting that users could be at greater risk from their co-workers' machines than from their own. Until the Government sets standards for so-called extremely low frequency (ELF) emissions, Macworld suggests that users keep their monitors at arm's length and position themselves at least twice that distance from their nearest neighbor's machine...