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...highly legitimate. Our children, in being casual about drugs, far from being in revolt against an older generation, may in fact be acknowledging how influential a model that generation was." Add to that the painful adjustments that every adolescent must endure?the physical and emotional challenges of puberty, the hazard-strewn search for self-discovery ?and any drug can mean danger to all but the most stable. Like alcohol, marijuana may not be risky for a secure adult, but to an anxious teen-ager it offers a seductive release from the hard reality of growing up. His judgment...
...often, public officials shy away from curbing a suspected environmental hazard until a direct, incontrovertible relationship has been established. As Johnson explains: "We have reached the time when we can no longer postpone action while we try to dot every scientific i and cross every scientific t" When he was advised that color TV sets and microwave ovens are a potentially dangerous source of radiation, Johnson quickly alerted the public, then helped to write strict new radiation standards. To combat black lung disease, which now afflicts about 100,000 miners, he established interim limits on the amount of airborne coal...
...subcommittee members. But Guttmacher, like a committee of 19 Planned Parenthood physicians that met recently, had a more serious concern. By no means all the unwanted pregnancies will result in babies. As many or more will result in abortions (see following story), most of them illegal, with the attendant hazard of serious illness or death...
...Albany, where he is now employed. At first, the state kept quiet about the case. But eventually a reporter heard about it, and state officials decided to head off scare stories by giving the facts. "From a public health point of view," they insisted, "there is absolutely no hazard...
...soapmakers-P & G, Colgate and Lever-vigorously deny that there is a health hazard and produce a barrage of statistical evidence. P & G pretested the effects of enzymes on the skin by applying patches smeared with detergent solution to more than 20 random groups of from 60 to 100 volunteers. The patches were applied three times a week for three weeks, and there was not a single case of skin irritation. Executives also say that they have all but eliminated enzyme dust in packaged goods. Just to keep the record clean, however, the soapmakers say that they intend...