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Morton's introduction to glutaric aciduria and the Amish came one night in 1987 while he was on duty in the clinical laboratory at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. A fellow physician, Dr. Charles Nichter, asked him to analyze the urine sample of an Amish child, Danny Lapp, from Lancaster County. At the time, Danny was alert but had no control over his arms or legs--signs of cerebral palsy, which was Nichter's medical specialty. Morton's testing revealed a metabolic fingerprint that could be caused only by glutaric aciduria, a disorder that had previously been reported only eight...
...Ingvar Carlsson, who once accepted nuclear power, gave a bitter speech in which he charged that "Chernobyl has spread radioactive iodine and cesium over our fields, forests, marshes and lakes." The accident has cost Sweden at least $144 million in ruined food and threatens the livelihood of 15,000 Lapp nomads who live in central Sweden. The reindeer they raise and the berries and fish they eat have all been seriously contaminated by radiation. Concluded Carlsson: "We must get rid of nuclear power." Sweden plans to phase out its twelve plants before the year...
Come Christmas, Santa had better not overwork his reindeer or he may end up financing some fancy surgery for them. According to Dr. Claes Rehbinder of the Swedish Veterinary College at Uppsala, reindeer suffer from stress and are prone to ulcers. Studying animals slaughtered during a roundup in the Lapp village of Mittådalen and elsewhere in northern Sweden, Rehbinder found that an astonishing four-fifths of them had ulcers...
...second front in his duties as Director of ACDA. The bureau was created in the halcyon days of arms control, in the era of the Test Ban Treaty. It was a conceptual offspring of the "National Peace Agency" envisioned by disarmamentminded scientists after Hiroshima. The agency--which physicist Ralph Lapp has termed "a bashful chrysalis reluctant to try its wings"--has little true policy-making authority, and while it is undoubtedly more inclined toward weapons-control than other bureaucratic divisions, it has hardly been independent or boldly innovative. Understaffed, underfunded and overshadowed by the authority of its giant older siblings...
LOCATION. Nuclear Physicist Ralph Lapp concedes the extreme unlikelihood of major accidents, but nonetheless advocates locating new nuclear plants far from population centers. In apparent agreement, the AEC recently forbade construction of a proposed plant eleven miles from Philadelphia. But, charges Ralph Nader, proposed AEC guidelines that aimed to force utilities to build plants in sparsely populated areas have been vetoed by utility executives because the industry fears that publishing the guidelines would imply that the safety of operating plants was in doubt. In fact, Nader says, eleven existing plants, including big ones near New York and Chicago, would...