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Industry wields its financial might on political and scientific levels to divert attention from possible environmental causes of cancer--through overt lobby groups, which battle environmental regulation, and through the less apparent but more insidious basic research by the industrial councils. But no spokesman defends public health as vociferously as industry protects its products. This one-sided debate has led to an increasingly polluted environment which harbors an ever-increasing number of probable carcinogens. The national death rate due to cancer has risen steadily since 1930, according to a 1982 American Cancer Society report. Although this rise in the incidence...
...boomers who led the rush to the slopes are older now. "The skiing hotshots of the '60s are married now with three children," says Chamber of Commerce President Tom Clark. "We need to work harder to get them." Mindful of the family crowd, police have cracked down on overt cocaine use. Another problem: more resorts fighting for a stable pool of skiers. Since 1975 the number of ski areas in Colorado alone has snowballed from 27 to 35, and Aspen's share of the state pie has slid from 29.5% in 1972-73 to 15.7% last season...
...question of Soviet influence becomes difficult to call when counterespionage officials try to uncover KGB links to the antinuclear movement in the U.S. and Western Europe. By CIA reckoning, the Soviets spend roughly $3 billion to $4 billion each year on overt and covert propaganda activities. According to a State Department official, as much as $600 million may have been spent so far on the peace offensive. Using national Communist parties or recognized Communist-front organizations like the World Peace Council, the Kremlin has been able to channel funds to a host of new antiwar organizations that would, in many...
Though such imitation is a form of flattery, USA Today still has few overt admirers among its competitors. Says Bruce Winters, editor of the San Fernando Valley (Calif.) Daily News: "If a computer could design a newspaper, it would be USA Today." Many in the industry call it "McPaper," in a slighting comparison to the McDonald's fast-food chain; the news briefs that predominate on more than a dozen of the paper's 40 daily pages are dismissed as "McNuggets." Says Anthony Insolia, editor of Long Island's Newsday: "I'm not sure USA Today...
...Houston's Harris County is troubling. In cases where a black or Chicano had killed a white, 65% of defendants were tried for capital murder; only 25% of whites who killed a black or Chicano faced the death penalty. "I don't think it's overt racism," says University of Texas...