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...symphony of warnings even has elaborate seasonal variations. Christmas, for instance, is the time to avoid giving little Johnny toys that can maim or pajamas treated with carcinogenic flameproofing. But every season brings fresh cautions against some new menacing gunk found in air, water, food, medicines. This year alerts were raised about stuffs used to treat dandruff, insomnia, alcoholism and high blood pressure...
...costs, a decision last week by the Environmental Protection Agency was a breath of fresh air. Rather than fixing stern limits on the air pollutants discharged by each and every smokestack or other source in a plant, the EPA will permit state authorities to set a total on the gunk that the entire plant can discharge. This is called the "bubble concept" because environmental regulators will treat a plant as if it were contained in a bubble and all its pollutants emerged from a single hole in that bubble. By any name, the policy will go far toward satisfying businessmen...
Traditionally, most laymen have thought of nicotine as the principal villain in tobacco. For two decades, scientists have been concentrating on "tars," a catchall term for the viscous gunk that is left from cigarette smoke after the gases and water vapor have been boiled off. Now, while they do not exonerate these culprits, researchers are studying carbon monoxide, a product of incomplete combustion in cigarettes as in automobile engines...
...Janice May Udry, illustrated by Martha Alexander (Harper & Row; $2.50). This little girl does everything with mud from making simple mud balls to mud mountains and an entire mud village with mud people. She even tries to sell mud. She spends an entire glorious day working with the gunk...
...magazine is burnt out, it can be swiftly inverted and the other inserted. The added weight of the second magazine, however, is enough to draw the lip of the first magazine out of true, and can lead to a bent round and a fatal jam. Moreover, Delta mud, jungle gunk, and the grit blown up by helicopter rotors demand the rifleman's constant attention...