Word: mx
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Both men have always defied pigeonholes. In the Senate, Gore was an environmentalist who knew everything about the MX missile; Bradley favored funding the Nicaraguan contras, but was against the Gulf War. These days, whether they are talking health care, education, crime or poverty, the instruments they use, for the most part, all come out of the New Democrat toolbox. Bradley has gone further left on gays, proposing that they should have all the legal and economic rights of marriage short of the title itself, and he's gone further on gun control, where he favors registering all handguns...
...civilian life takes on complications in a fighting force. Pentagon attorneys say the law's definition of "firearms" is so broad that by year's end the military may have to bar those convicted of familial violence from operating weapons like M-1 tanks, F-16 jet fighters and MX missiles, among others. And nothing is simple at the Pentagon: military pilots, after all, must carry sidearms to protect themselves and their planes when flying into trouble spots. So even if an F-16 is not deemed a "firearm" under the final policy, a pilot convicted of domestic abuse could...
...latest study a team of Finnish scientists reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute last week that MX, a compound produced when chlorine reacts with organic material in water, causes cancer in laboratory rats when swallowed in large quantities. "Although these findings cannot be extrapolated to humans," they concluded, "MX should be studied as a candidate risk factor...
...editorial in the NCI journal last week tried to put the drinking-water problem in perspective. It pointed out that at the highest levels of MX found in U.S. water supplies, the additional lifetime cancer risk was only 2 in 1 million. But it encouraged further investigation of the effects of MX and other chlorination by-products, and last week the National Institutes of Health announced that it was launching a two-year study. The NCI editorial also warned about the perils of abandoning drinking-water chlorination too hastily. It noted that when Peru did that in 1991, some...
...hear the blather about cold war consensus, one would think that the '80s never happened. At every turn, on every issue for which there presumably was one simple, knee-jerk, anti-Soviet answer -- the MX, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Grenada, "Euromissile" deployment -- there was deep division. And practically every time, liberals, so wistful now for the easy choices of yore, made the wrong choice...