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CANCER CLUSTER Women on New York's Long Island face a breast-cancer risk 30% higher than the national average. Activists blamed pesticides that farmers used to spray on potatoes and other crops, but a seven-year, $8 million government-ordered study found no link--at least to DDT (banned in 1972). The jury is still out on the pesticides now in use. --By David Bjerklie...
...smokers. Results showed that exposure to secondhand smoke at the w orkplace increased the risk of developing lung cancer by 16 to 19 percent. Lung tumors that developed as a result of being exposed to secondhand smoke resembled those that developed as a result of active smoking, reinforcing the link between passive smo ki ng and increased cancer risks. The study also found a link between passive smoking and cancer in the nasopharynx, nasal cavity, paranasal sinuses, cervix, gastrointestinal tract and breast...
Even if investigators find a link between the Wisconsin outdoorsmen and the game they ate, it won't necessarily lead to a mad cow-type epidemic. Americans, after all, eat a lot more hamburger than they do venison...
...establishment of a Palestinian state by the end of next year. That state would then complete negotiations with Israel over final borders and other issues by the end of 2005. Of course, there will be no progress in the Middle East without direct U.S. involvement. So why not link U.S. backing for an Israeli-Palestinian settlement with E.U. support for an eventual move on Saddam? In the meantime, continue the containment policy against Iraq...
...Saddam's game plan, for now, is simple: Keep the neighbors out of Washington's camp by declaring a willingness to cooperate with the arms inspectors, and paint U.S. war plans as part of a wider American attack on the Arab and Muslim world. Better still, link it directly to the Bush administration's close relationship with the government of Ariel Sharon, whose policies offend even Washington's most moderate Arab allies. That's precisely what Saddam tried to do in 1991 when he fired SCUD missiles at Israel just as the U.S.-led coalition assault began, in hopes...