Word: health
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...under construction. But residents became so upset that the government ordered a halt to work on a segment of the line. Fears were further heightened last month when The New Yorker magazine published a series on "The Hazards of Electromagnetic Fields." Author Paul Brodeur charged utility companies and public health officials with trying to gloss over the threat to health posed by power lines and computer terminals...
...concerns have some justification. Last month the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment issued a report concluding that power lines are a legitimate health issue. More troubling, it suggested that household wiring, appliances like toasters and electric blankets, and such items as TV sets and computer terminals, all of which create electromagnetic fields, might also have an impact on health...
...experts see no certain connection between national suicide rates and the availability of guns. While the U.S. has a disproportionate number of suicides by firearms, it falls only about midway on the World Health Organization's most recent list of overall suicide rates in 33 industrialized nations. At 13.2 per 100,000 people, America's record was far worse than that of Ireland (9.2), Italy (8.3), Spain (6.9) and Greece (3.8). But Hungary (45.5), Denmark (27.1), Finland (27) and Switzerland (22.8) make the problem in the U.S. seem inconsequential by comparison...
...happened. Seven of the nine Justices emerged from behind the red velvet curtain and took their seats. In the hushed chamber, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist read in his singsong, quivering voice excerpts of the long-awaited decision of the divided court in the case of Webster v. Reproductive Health Services. Before he was through, it was clear that the country was about to be plunged into the most corrosive political struggle it has experienced since the debate over the Viet...
Despite the outcry, the court's ruling has limited practical impact: any woman can still legally get an abortion, even in Missouri. The Truman Medical Center in Kansas City and the University of Missouri hospital in Columbia immediately stopped performing abortions, since they receive public funds. But Reproductive Health Services, a St. Louis clinic that challenged the Missouri law in the high court, and other private facilities remain open. The closing of publicly subsidized facilities could be construed as a back-door way to deny otherwise permissible abortions to the poor. No restrictions are ever likely to thwart the ability...