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...MONDAY, November 13, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) identified ethylene dibromide (EDB) as the most potent cancer-causing substance ever found in the 300 chemical NCI animal test program. Yet, aware of this finding, professors allowed the use of EDB in Tuesday and Wednesday (November 14 and 15) afternoon Natural Sciences 3, "Introduction to Chemistry," labs...
...high-dose NCI animal study does not conclusively prove that low levels of EDB can cause cancer in humans. But the scientific community is currently debating he validity of extrapolating animal carcinogencity data to humans. This debate is far from resolved, and many scientists feel that the discovery of potent cancer-causing ability in animals must be taken as strong presumptive evidence for a human cancer threat. That's the reason why NCI did its animal study in the first place...
Aside from the potentially potent first line of sophomore Bobby McDonald between George Hughes and Purdy, Cleary has yet to finalize his units for tonight...
These opium poppies grow in Turkey. They are not your ordinary Papaver somniferum, but a new strain developed over eleven years by a Soviet scientist from Armenia. Infuriated by his government's decision to end the better-poppy-for-socialism program (his aim was to produce a more potent drug for medical use), Dr. Krikor Grotrian makes a deal to sell the seeds to an Armenian dealer, who smuggles them into Turkey. There, largely because they bear scarlet blooms rather than the more common white petals of opium flowers, they flourish undetected in the hinterland. What Grotrian does not realize...
...letters of protest at a new clause in the Polish Consitution enshrining an 'inviolable fraternal bond' with the Soviet Union, linked with the covert and overt support from the Catholic Church for the WDC dissidents, has placed the regime on an uneasy defensive and proved a potent combination...