Word: lunge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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ENVIRONMENT. A mass of evidence indicates that the incidence of certain types of cancer-lung, liver and bladder, for example-is markedly higher for workers in such "dirty" industries as chemicals, mining and asbestos processing (TIME, Oct. 20). Cancer may also be linked with more elusive agents, including the level of radiation and the amount of sunlight in a given region. Some statistics are already available to support this thesis. Melanoma, a form of skin cancer, seems more prevalent in the sunny U.S. South, for example, than in the North. Man-made chemicals and pollutants in water, air and food...
...first, they are as clear and as easily traced as a mountain stream. Then they flow downward-through eight agencies, such as the Social Rehabilitation Service and the Alcohol, Drug and Mental Health Administration; 20 bureaus, such as the Office of Native American Programs and the National Heart and Lung Institute; and 40 programs, including Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Act contracts and the Area Planning and Social Services Programs for the Elderly...
...jump may be a fluke-the result of changes in the way cancer death statistics are collected. Others believe it is an indirect result of a drop in the mortality rate from heart disease, leaving more people susceptible to death from cancer. Whatever the cause of the sudden rise, lung cancer must take a large share of the blame. The American Cancer Society reports that lung cancer next year will kill an estimated 65,200 men and 18,600 women-2,800 more victims than this year. Ironically, unlike many other forms of the disease, lung cancer is largely preventable...
Died. Ernest Hamlin Baker, 86, meticulous artist who executed nearly 400 cover portraits for TIME over a period of 20 years; following a lung embolism; in Norton, Mass. Starting with the Polish Pianist-Statesman Ignace Paderewski in 1939, Baker's subjects included William Randolph Hearst, John L. Lewis, Dwight Eisenhower and Charles de Gaulle...
...pollution and weather produced a killer fog that caused 4,000 deaths, in many cases by aggravating existing respiratory ailments. Communities in the eastern part of the Los Angeles basin have had fre quent "smog alerts" during summer months; when an alert is issued, residents with heart or lung problems are warned to avoid unnecessary activity and mothers are told to keep small children indoors. Chicago officials issued warnings 15 times last summer when levels of ozone (a highly active form of oxygen produced, among other ways, by auto engines) rose to the point where they could cause...