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...Andrew H. Geiger said experiments using control groups were accurate but cost too much in human lives. "You can get really effective data really quickly, but you'll kill a bunch of people," said Geiger, who called himself the "token gay, white middle-class male" on the panel...
...doctors on a fact-finding team sponsored by Physicians for Human Rights. Drs. Bennett Simon and Leon Shapiro are associate clinical professors of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School; Dr. Jennifer Leaning is director of emergency services for the Harvard Community Health Plan. The leader of the team, H. Jack Geiger, is a professor of community medicine at the City University of New York Medical School...
Meanwhile, investigators armed with Geiger counters were searching for other contaminated areas in Goiania (pop. 1.2 million), in central Brazil. Authorities have checked more than 4,000 people for exposure and evacuated 30 families from their homes, many of which were near the junkyard...
Elsewhere in Europe, the nuclear catastrophe seemed to have faded from memory. French shoppers who once used Geiger counters to help them select produce during the height of the radiation scare now buy fruits and vegetables without concern. In West Germany, though, 20 institutes and eight community groups continue to monitor samples of suspected foods. Checks recently found excessive radiation in certain chocolates, dried mushrooms and beef...
Police said about 5,000 protesters marched through West Berlin's downtown area, wearing gas masks and carrying mock Geiger counters in a peaceful demonstration...