Word: environmental
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...your head and drink in some of those pure white flakes? Try to resist the impulse. After testing samples of snow from several Kansas City areas, Research Chemist David Roberts, a specialist in heavy-metal poisoning, discovered amounts of lead that measured six times the level specified in the Environmental Protection Agency's clean-water standards. Even water from the polluted Kansas River proved less leaden than the snow. According to Roberts, car exhausts and factories are spewing into the environment 1,000 times the natural level of lead, and snow acts as a "scrubber" that washes it away...
THE AMERICAN FRIENDS Service Committee recently petitioned Gov. Michael S. Dukakis to abolish the "blue room" isolation cells at Walpole State Prison. These bare concrete cells lack mattresses, toilet fixtures and adequate light and ventilation. The Department of Correction claims the cells are only used to confine suicidal or violent...
BRODEUR'S BOOK IS downright frightening. With a chilling absence of tone or bias, Brodeur shows that microwaves have occupied a place in American life since the beginning of the century, without commanding any kind of public awareness or concern about their effect on life or the environment.
In addition to the mind-control applications, microwaves are being harnessed for what Brodeur dubs "total electronic warfare." Both the United States and the USSR are rapidly learning how to use microwaves to inflict severe burns on humans, as well as refining their surveillance, radar and rocket-jamming techniques. The...
Checkbook administration, however, has torn apart the subsistence economy of the territory and contributed to an environment of distorted development and social despair. Indeed, most of the same problems afflict the South Pacific islands held by the U.S. independent of any U.N. sanction. These include: