Word: filteration
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...filter tips really work? Yes, reported an eminent cancer researcher in last week's A.M.A. Journal. They make smoking safer-up to a point...
...yields from plain cigarettes differed by less than 20%, but the filtered brands yielded 67% less than the unfiltered average. Of 76 mice painted with tar from "straights," 41 developed tumors, and 16 of these turned to cancer; of 60 mice treated with the tar from the same number of filter tips, 15 got tumors, of which three became cancerous...
...slowdown in its military contracting helped to cut AMF's first half-year sales 11%, to $185 million. Burgess, once president of Trans World Airlines, was an Eisenhower era Assistant Secretary of Defense, joined AMF in 1958. Burgess intends to push new consumer products, including an auto exhaust filter which, if certified, would become one of two competing antismog systems mandatory on all cars in California...
...central Asian heartland, around fabled Bokhara and Samarkand, cancer of the mouth is a common consequence of chewing nas-a mixture of tobacco, lime, ashes and cottonseed oil. But nas chewers have far less lung cancer than Soviet cigarette smokers (the government is working on an improved filter). Cancer of the esophagus is most frequent in parts of central Asia and Siberia, where a favorite beverage is scalding hot tea, sometimes dosed with pepper to give it an extra kick...
...does the information from these sources always filter through the thick complexity of daily life. One evening a friend and I were sitting on the porch of our boarding house chatting with one of the neighbors. After reminiscing about her first husband, whom she married in 1915, and asking us whether the sinking of the Titanic preceded World War I or II, she wanted to know whether we thought there would be another war. We muttered and rambled for a while, until she asked us: "Who is it that's so strong now? Germany...