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...crackdown stemmed from complaints to the police and the Administration that bicycles were causing a hazard to blind and disabled students walking in the Yard. One student was hospitalized last week for injuries suffered in a bicycle accident...
...products actually generate more pollution than their predecessors. Detroit's high-powered cars are far more polluting than prewar models. Even worse, pollutants can be synergistic. "If the levels of sulfur dioxide and a carcinogen [cancer producing substance] in polluted air are both doubled," Commoner explains, "the resulting hazard is much more than doubled, because sulfur dioxide inhibits the lung's self-protective mechanism and makes it more susceptible to the carcinogen...
...caused by inhalation of trace amounts of chemicals that were present in the O.R. atmosphere. The researchers urged further studies to determine whether there is a cause-and-effect relationship. But the authors are not waiting until those studies are completed before issuing a warning about the newly recognized hazard. They have installed better air-filtering machinery in operating rooms at Stanford and suggested that physicians treating pregnant women avoid anaesthesia whenever possible...
...group brought actions against the Health, Education and Welfare and Agriculture departments. The court passed the complaint to the federal Environmental Protection Agency, which in turn asked a panel of independent scientists to study the problem. Last month the panel reported that while DDT does not pose "an imminent hazard to human health," it does harm the environment, and thus should be phased out as soon as possible. In view of this report, the court has ordered the EPA to explain why DDT should not be banned as E.D.F. urges...
Typecasting is a hazard not only for actors but for pianists. Yet for listeners it has certain advantages. There is always a little extra pleased surprise when a celebrated Beethoven thunderer like Viennese Pianist Alfred Brendel also proves a fine interpreter of Mozart, as he just has in this summer's Mostly Mozart Festival at New York's Philharmonic Hall. Folding his gawky body (6 ft. 1½ in., 164 lbs.) down on the piano stool like some large, clumsy bird, Brendel at times brought an almost wren-like elegance to the formalized passion of Mozart...