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Dates: during 1970-1979
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IF YOU AVOID red meat, you won't find any refuge in eating fish. At the top of the food chain, fish can accumulate chemicals at up to 300 times the level in surrounding waters. If you eat fish regularly, chances are you've swallowed more than your share of...

Author: By Leonard H. Shen, | Title: ...Another Man's Poison | 9/21/1979 | See Source »

The Food and Drug Administration isn't much better. A Congressional panel remarks that the FDA's formal rulemaking procedures "are complex, cumbersome, and time-consuming." As a result, the FDA usually relies on informal "action levels" if a chemical is present at levels above a certain level, the contaminated...

Author: By Leonard H. Shen, | Title: ...Another Man's Poison | 9/21/1979 | See Source »

Even if Congress is stirred into action, though, the Office of Technology Assessment notes that increased regulation by the FDA, USDA, and EPA "are not likely to prevent the deliberate or accidental misuse or disposal of the thousands of toxic substances manufactured in the U.S." The answer, then, is to...

Author: By Leonard H. Shen, | Title: ...Another Man's Poison | 9/21/1979 | See Source »

Even an eleven year old asked about her political beliefs will say she is a "marxista." Yet it is doubtful this enthusiastic patriotism would continue if the government were not significantly improving most people's lives.

Author: By Linda S. Drucker, | Title: Castro's Cuba: Stranger in a Strange Land | 9/21/1979 | See Source »

For the U.S., in the future, to talk with the PLO would not "build up" a dangerous organization, or condone terrorism. It would simply acknowledge reality: the PLO holds, if not the key, at least one of the keys to any future solution, and would lose it only if it...

Author: By Stanley H. Hoffmann, | Title: Tuning Into the Palestinians | 9/20/1979 | See Source »

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