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...LAKE LEAK. Plutonium from improperly handled wastes of the Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant near Broomfield, Colo., has leaked into the town's Great Western Reservoir. Federal officials insist that the plutonium, one of the most lethal of all nuclear products, is harmless as long as it stays on the bottom of the 40-acre reservoir. But residents of Broomfield-aware that even the tiniest amounts of plutonium in the body can cause cancer-are unconvinced. They have asked the Federal Government for the $30 million the town will have to spend to create a new water supply. Meanwhile...
...permanent cloud barrier would shut out the sun; this "greenhouse" effect would dangerously raise the earth's surface temperature. There were also predictions of skin cancer epidemics: nitrogen oxides released by the SSTs would destroy the ozone layer that partly shields the earth against the sun's lethal ultraviolet radiation. Then too, the SST's fumes were denounced as a potential new cause of massive pollution...
...Amin Dada, 49, a man of mercurial personality, who in a short six years has caught the world's attention with his unpredictable and often deadly antics. He is killer and clown, big-hearted buffoon and strutting martinet. He can be as playful as a kitten and as lethal as a lion. He stands 6 ft. 4 in. tall and carries a massive bulk of nearly 300 lbs., and within that girth courses the unharnessed ego of a small child, a craze for attention and reverence. Last week Idi Amin was playing to the hilt the role he loves...
...suppliers on demand, often on a day-to-day basis. Most Midwestern utilities are able to maintain this balance of payments because consumption is way up and the majority of customers are still paying. But in New England, where homeowners typically heat with oil, the cash crisis is becoming lethal. Wholesalers, especially the major oil companies, have screwed down credit limits so tight that dealers in Boston are being given as little as five days to pay for shipments. At the same time, unpaid bills from lallygagging consumers are piling up as never before. "I got more customers...
...below the smoker's usual level, he smokes: when it is at his level, he doesn't." Schachter agrees with other researchers who have recommended development of a new high-nicotine, low-tar, low-gas cigarette. Current low-tar, low-nicotine brands, he says, may be lethal. "You wind up spending more, smoking more and getting far more dangerous combustion products for the same nicotine payoff as stronger cigarettes. Worse, it's probably a good guess that the low-tar brands are hooking millions of teenagers. When I was young, that first Camel or Lucky made...