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...they gave an Olympics and everybody came? Answer, at Albertville and Barcelona: thrills aplenty. And spills. If the figure skaters' jitters deprived them of perfection, it hyped the competition, so fiercely did they fight just to keep on their feet. Star quality counts too. Hungary's Henrietta Onodi, an elf-enchantress, took silver in gymnastics but gold in viewers' eyes...
Dispensing anatomical advice with the charm of a Keebler elf, psychologist Ruth Westheimer delivered a rambling lecture to an audience of 100 at Austin Hall last night...
Several Administration officials are also skeptical about the EPA's conclusions. Last June draft language classifying ELF fields as a "probable carcinogen" was deleted from an earlier version of the EPA report after it was reviewed by the White House. At the time, the EPA denied that it was pressured into dropping the offending words...
...being afflicted with some of the cancers associated with electromagnetism are rather small. Brain cancer is a rare disease. Only 3.1 cases per 100,000 people were reported in 1986. In the most worrisome studies, the risk of developing such a cancer appears to double or triple because of ELF fields. By contrast, the risk of lung cancer for a chain smoker is 20 times as great as it is for the public at large...
...which is a disinterested party. The EPA used to conduct its own studies, but funding for its research was cut off by the Reagan Administration. Perhaps the best candidate for new funding would be the National Institutes for Health. The research should examine not only the effects of ELF fields but also those of less-studied radiation having shorter wavelengths, such as radio and TV waves...