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...menace. "That was a very nice home there," says Leistner, the town's final mayor, as she drove through Times Beach recently. "That whole wing was a game room paneled with imported teakwood." Suddenly her tour-guide tone changes: "The man who lived in that home has had a lung removed. I remember the minister's wife who lived next door there had a miscarriage. The lady who lived here, she had two miscarriages. Kidney cancer over there, and the home here, the wife died in childbirth. This next family, the dog had a seizure disorder, and their little girl...
...women may be on to something. According to the Massachusetts department of public health, certain kinds of cancer do seem to be appearing too frequently, at least in Holbrook. Between 1979 and 1983, the town lost 24 men to lung cancer; 15 such deaths would be expected in a town with Holbrook's age distribution and population. During the same period, Holbrook men were dying of bladder cancer at a rate more than three times the average, and fatal uterine, cervical and ovarian cancers occurred at more than twice the normal rate...
...didn't tell you all the deaths, did I?" asks McCalip late one day. "In the past six years," he says, "there have been four or five lung- cancer deaths in Casmalia. The young woman who used to teach here with me was ! in perfect health when she came, and she died of leukemia two years later." Not until last month, after well-to-do neighborhoods in Santa Maria got a strong chemical whiff one day, did the county government finally admit the dump was a problem. People in Casmalia are sure they have the official reluctance figured: revenues from...
...versatile actor of stage, screen and television, whose memorable roles ranged from the genial neighborhood policeman in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945) to the psychotic Captain Queeg in a TV production of The Caine Mutiny Court Martial for which he won an Emmy Award in 1956; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles...
...speaks after seeing the preliminary results of a nationwide HHS survey to be released next spring. It shows that 80% to 90% of Americans still do not get enough exercise. The Public Health Service defines that as anything that boosts heart and lung performance to 60% or more of its capacity at least three times a week for a full 20 minutes, the minimum needed to produce any cardiovascular benefit. Five years ago, the service urged that by 1990, three- fifths of those 18 to 64 and half of those 65 and over should be meeting that minimum...