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...ideal of delicate, camellia-white skin has long since been supplanted by the bronzed-god look. But the trend has taken a mortal toll. Sun-related skin cancer is rapidly on the rise in the U.S. and Europe, and afflicting younger and younger people. The incidence of the most lethal form, malignant melanoma, though less directly linked to sunshine, has jumped tenfold in the past 20 years. Last week some 300 dermatologists and others gathered in Manhattan to discuss the problem at the first World Congress on Cancers of the Skin. Their message: bring back the parasol...
...more lethal are the darkly pigmented spots of malignant melanoma, which strikes more than 15,000 Americans a year, killing 45% of them. Though melanoma tends to occur on such sun-exposed areas as the chests of men and legs of women, its relationship to the sun remains unclear. A history of severe sunburns may play a role; pregnancy and birth control pills have also been implicated...
...toxic waste in the U.S. Before the site was finally shut down in 1972, it was filled with nearly 34 million gal. of hydrochloric, sulfuric and phosphoric acids, chloroform, trichloroethylene and other poisonous manufacturing byproducts. Although California and federal authorities have spent $7 million to contain the damage, the lethal chemicals are still working their way into the ground water, threatening area residents and farms...
...parallel is most explicit. "The Bomb is very much a factor in everyone's mind," she says, "and I wanted to find out what was the effect on society of a massive destructive force." Tuchman had originally intended to focus the book on the Black Death," the most lethal disaster in recorded history" which ---between 1308 and 1350--killed an estimated one-third of the population living between India and Ireland. The book eventually expanded to cover the entire century, a period when "assumptions were cracking institutions were breaking up, and everything people believed in was being destroyed. "Pausing...
National fatality figures are approximate, since coroners do not or cannot always find the evidence that cocaine was lethal. But overdoses of coke were directly or primarily responsible for as many as 300 deaths in 1981. Last year Dr. Charles Wetli, the deputy chief medical examiner for Miami's Dade County, attributed 14 local deaths exclusively to cocaine. All of those who died had been frequent users. But the alarming fact is that most of the dead had not been especially reckless: two-thirds died after merely snorting coke?not after free-basing or shooting up?and, according to Wetli...