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News Editor for This Issue: Joseph R. Palmore '91 Night Editors: Seth A. Gitell '91 Gregory B. Kasowski '93 Eric S. Solowey '91 Editorial Editor: John L. Larew '91 Feature Editor: Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Sports Editor: Michael D. Stankiewicz '90-'91 Photo Editor: Ali F. Zaidi '92 Business Editor: Timothy B. Paydos '92 Copy Editor: Samuel R. Aybar...
News Editor for This Issue: Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Night Editors: Julian E. Barnes '93 Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Jeffrey C. Wu '92 Editorial Editor: Beth L. Pinsker '93 Feature Editor: Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Sports Editors: Michael R. Grunwald '92 Michael D. Stankiewicz '90-'91 Photo Editor: Danna Z. Harman '93 Copy Editor: Daniel L. Jacobowitz...
News Editor for This Issue: Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Night Editors: Seth A. Gitell '91 Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Suzanne Petren Moritz '93 Maggie S. Tucker '93 Melanie R. Williams '91 Editorial Editor: Joshua M. Sharfstein '91 Feature Editor: Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Sports Editors: Peter I. Rosenthal '93 Michael D. Stankiewicz '91 Photo Editor: Leor S. Bachar '90 Business Editor: Ray Nomizu '91 Copy Editor: Roger...
...Hoffman, coordinator of the CDC study, admits that scientists have not ruled out the possibility that those directly involved in handling and spraying Agent Orange were hurt by the herbicide. But he thinks that his agency's research clearly shows that most soldiers were not at risk. In response, veterans' groups have denounced the CDC study as poorly designed and irrelevant. "The CDC is a commendable research institution," says American Legion spokesman John Hanson, "but with this study, they dropped the ball...
...about the CDC's methods. The best way to study the effects of Agent Orange would have been to single out those soldiers most exposed to the herbicide and compare their cancer rates with those in the ) unexposed population. But when the investigators tried to do this, says Dr. Hoffman, they could not reliably identify the soldiers who had received the highest doses. So instead the researchers adopted a more indirect approach, examining the incidence of six different cancers, including soft-tissue sarcoma and a kind of liver malignancy, that had been tentatively linked to herbicide exposure. Since...