Word: panic
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...Orleans, Johnny Greene, a writer, was fired from an editing job with McDermott International Inc. after writing an article for PEOPLE magazine about his own suspected case of AIDS. "They just walked in and said, 'Get the hell out,' " he recalls. "I hope they were acting out of panic or confusion, not belligerence or homophobia...
Your informative article on radon [ENVIRONMENT, July 22] failed to express the panic, frustration and helplessness people feel when they discover their homes are unsafe because of radon contamination. The number of people affected by this gas is larger than the number of those involved in many natural disasters. Yet for radon victims, the Government provides no relief. Combatting radon by sealing walls and floors is not necessarily effective after a building is constructed. A better method is ventilating the soil around the home. Lester A. Slaback Jr. Gaithersburg...
...Scherer, a worker who has not been late or absent for ten years wins a fortnight for two in Florida. One employee now in his sixth year of perfect service, says Scherer, "tells me that about twice a year he jumps out of bed in a panic in the middle of the night afraid he has missed his alarm clock...
...from other networkers, he broadened the scope of his reporting to cover the national political conventions last year and the presidential Inauguration last January, where he posed as a correspondent for a fictitious news service. In May he started a series of interviews with people touched by the AIDS panic, taking his readers into hospitals, bathhouses and bordellos...
...earlier this month that vitamin E confers no cardiac benefit on healthy women age 45 or older. What immediately grabbed everyone's attention in the J.A.M.A. study was the discovery that vitamin E slightly increased the risk of heart failure. That's a first. There's no need to panic. If you take a multivitamin, you're getting only 30 IUs of vitamin E, and this has long been shown to be a safe amount. And 400 IUs may yet prove to be fine. For complicated statistical reasons, the heart-failure finding could easily be a fluke, the study...