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Halpurn said a study of lethal mutations caused by radiation showed "the only safe threshold is at zero rems per year." A rem is a measure of radiation...

Author: By Thomas A. Mullen, | Title: Speakers Call Nuclear Power Unsafe | 12/3/1976 | See Source »

...battles, arrests and deaths are stages on the main line of the "Orient Express"-the lethal route from Asia's opium-rich Golden Triangle (the intersection of Burma, Laos and Thailand) to Amsterdam, distribution center for Europe's booming dope market...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DRUGS: Heroin Rides an Orient Express | 11/29/1976 | See Source »

Initially, some doctors thought the ailment was a form of Lassa fever, a highly lethal and still untreatable viral disease, usually transmitted by rodents, which was first discovered in a Nigerian town in 1969. Now the mystery has been solved. In Geneva last week, the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that scientists at Atlanta's CDC, Antwerp's Institute for Tropical Medicine and Britain's Microbiological Research Establishment had all identified the killer as a form of Marburg virus disease, an extremely rare ailment first spotted in 1967 among lab workers in Marburg, West Germany, handling organs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Killer on the Loose | 10/25/1976 | See Source »

Maximum Penalty. Kepone, a lethal white powder that was widely used against ants, roaches and potato bugs, was developed by Allied in 1951; in 1974 Allied turned the manufacturing of Kepone over to a newly formed Hopewell firm called Life Science Products Co., which was owned by two former Allied staffers and got both its equipment and raw material from Allied. Judge Merhige dismissed as unproved a prosecution charge that Life Science was an Allied "captive," set up merely to spare the big chemical company the bother of complying with the pollution laws. But the judge's sentence suggested...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLLUTION: $13 Million Reminder | 10/18/1976 | See Source »

...believe that biodisasters could occur. In an interview in Science Magazine Sinsheimer cites the possibility that, by endowing lower organisms with the DNA of upper organisms, a "sort of betrayal of state secrets at the molecular level may occur." These new organisms may be endowed with dangerous, possibly lethal characteristics that scientists may not be able to combat...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DNA: There is Time to Think | 10/6/1976 | See Source »

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