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Smaller Babies. According to a recent report by the National Academy of Sciences, the gas becomes dangerous when it reaches levels of ten parts per million parts of air-a level that is no rarity in today's congested cities. At that point it can harm pregnant women and victims of bronchitis, emphysema and chronic heart disease. A damaged heart, for example, may be unable to compensate for reduced oxygen supply, and death may result. In Chicago and Philadelphia, says John Middleton, a top federal air-control official, the CO danger point "is exceeded throughout one-third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: Invisible Killer | 1/26/1970 | See Source »

...start to worry as this guy comes over and starts handling you. But you're a progressive thinker, and, Jesus, this guy's just had a different background, and now he has different tastes, and it's a free country after all. He doesn't mean any harm; he's putting his fingers through your hair because he likes you. What's wrong with that. So it comes as no surprise when you find yourself in the restroom enjoying...

Author: By Sam SUNUATA Andy klein, Bennett H. Beach, Peter B. Bricham, Jim Fallows, Polly Jones, Julian Levy., John L. Powers, Frank Rich, and Anne DE Saint phalle, S | Title: The Great Probe Into the Meaning of Sex | 1/19/1970 | See Source »

...booby traps and mines. I wish they could see a young child that has had his limbs cut off by V.C. terrorists. I wish they could see the good will many of our troops have spread throughout the countryside of South Viet Nam. I wish they could see the harm done to the fighting morale resulting from peace marches and war demonstrations. I wish they could see that this war, just as any other war, is hell! And until they can see some of these things themselves firsthand, I wish they would keep their damned mouths shut...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 5, 1970 | 1/5/1970 | See Source »

...major thematic concern, was raised, unnecessarily I think, to a dominant position. Doubtless it is no accident that Troilus and Cressida describe their love largely in terms of food imagery, that Thirsites condemns, triumphantly, wars and lechery. But to single out for so much emphasis this one element does harm, I think, by narrowing Shakespeare's intents...

Author: By Frederic C. Bartter jr., | Title: Shakespeare and the RSC | 11/24/1969 | See Source »

...wonderful (see p. 21). Georgy Arbatov, head of Moscow's Institute of American Studies, put the issue in perspective: "As long as the U.S.A. has superiority over the U.S.S.R., it is considered that everything is all right. For Americans are sure they are the good guys, intending no harm to anybody. But I assure you that we in the Soviet Union also consider ourselves the good guys and feel not very comfortable if the opponent stubbornly strives for superiority." Just who is trying for nuclear supremacy is of course debatable. But Arbatov's main point has merit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: American Notes: Good Guys All | 11/7/1969 | See Source »

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