Word: environmentally
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Laden said that beyond concern over his own future, he was worried that people would inter part the decision as a sign Harvard is no longer interested in protection the environment.
"I don't think this is indicative of Harvard's feelings towards the environment, but it may be perceived that way," he said.
Congress continued to widen its investigation to cover all of the EPA's enforcement efforts. Called before the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, Gorsuch was accused of trying to cripple the agency through budget reductions. As the "Ice Queen" defended her stormy tenure, her eyes misted with a...
Industry wields its financial might on political and scientific levels to divert attention from possible environmental causes of cancer--through overt lobby groups, which battle environmental regulation, and through the less apparent but more insidious basic research by the industrial councils. But no spokesman defends public health as vociferously as industry protects its products. This one-sided debate has led to an increasingly polluted environment which harbors an ever-increasing number of probable carcinogens. The national death rate due to cancer has risen steadily since 1930, according to a 1982 American Cancer Society report. Although this rise in the incidence...
Both viral and genetic approaches to cancer research share one flaw--they attack not the cause of cancer but its mechanism. Even proponents of genetic and viral theories concede that something external must trigger malignant cell growth. These researchers accept the existence of cancer-causing substances in the environment as...