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...been desperate for some help were slamming down their phones. "What was he thinking?" asked one. "He'd have been better off if he'd just got on the plane and left for his Middle East trip." Some in the White House who had started the day feeling sick noted that the President was now 0 for 3: every time he opened his mouth about this subject, he made things worse. The Republican reaction was deadly. "It's like a sniper," said a G.O.P. source. "You only get one shot, and he missed...
Among the formerly sick: Harvard's Brigham and Women's Hospital, where 47 nurses wound up on disability leave in 1993 because of allergic reactions to the latex in surgical gloves that clung to surfaces in the building; Florida's Martin County Courthouse, where fungi infestation required a $3.5 million gutting by workers wearing respirators and bodysuits; even the epa's Washington offices, where brand-new carpets were blamed for gas emissions and were removed. OSHA's beleaguered inspectors can't begin to keep up with the complaints. A whole new business of industrial-hygiene companies has sprung up, offering...
However, interviews with 14 current and past employees, as well as building-inspection reports obtained by TIME, suggest that Southwest's San Antonio center is a "sick building" whose closed-circulation air supply has been contaminated by toxin-producing molds and bacteria...
...Sick-building syndrome, as scientists and health officials call it, is a disease of modern architecture: sealed, energy-conserving buildings continually recycle contaminated air. According to a survey by the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), one-third of the 70 million Americans who work indoors are quartered in buildings that are breeding grounds for an array of contaminants, from molds and bacteria to volatile organic compounds like formaldehyde. A 1996 Cornell University study found the problem was even worse: in every one of 35 buildings surveyed for the study, at least 20% of the occupants had experienced symptoms...
While this may be a soothing convenience for frazzled Main Street and mall shoppers, sick of crowds and long check-out lines, it is a loser for state and local tax coffers. Governors addressed this issue--shopping and taxes--in this now waning 105th Congress and so did an Institute of Politics study group on federal and state power struggles this fall. They are issues that aren't likely to go away...