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...questions about sex, she has always seemed impossible to embarrass. But last week Dr. Ruth Westheimer, 56, was red-faced about one of her own answers. In First Love: A Young People's Guide to Sexual Information, the country's most famous sex therapist missed an error that would make a publisher blush. The book, in the second paragraph on page 195, informed her teenage audience that it is "safe" to have sex the week before and the week during ovulation. The mistake, undetected until a New Jersey librarian pointed it out, forced Warner Books to recall...
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Inevitably, perhaps, these determined efforts to reverse a serious problem have upset some workers and sparked lawsuits and other actions. Many workers who fail drug tests insist that an error has been made, arguing that careers can be ruined over such a mistake. Others object because the tests detect traces of drugs lingering in the body that may have no effect on job performance. According to Dr. Reynold Schmidt, corporate medical director for Unocal, regular users of marijuana, for instance, can test positive in some urinalysis screenings three months or more after their last smoke...
Indeed, since the screening program was put into place at Southern Pacific, accidents caused by human error have been slashed by more than two-thirds, from 911 in 1983 to 285 in 1985. Says Company Vice President William Lacy: "I have read the Constitution many times, and have yet to find where it authorizes a person to climb up on a locomotive and operate a train carrying hazardous material while under the influence of drugs." --By Janice Castro. Reported by Jonathan Beaty/Los Angeles and Joseph J. Kane/Atlanta, with other bureaus