Word: skins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Supported by mortars, recoilless rifles and rockets, the rightists pushed out the defenders last week and then leveled the remaining shanties with bulldozers. Scores of Moslems were killed and at least 6,000 were left homeless. Survivors claimed that there had been a massacre and countless atrocities. "We shall skin them for this," vowed Kamal Jumblatt, head of the leftist Progressive Socialist Party and leader of the country's Druze community...
Allied officials informed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration about Kepone's toxicity as early as 1961 and warned Life Science that the pesticide, which can be absorbed through the skin, should be handled with care. The warning seems to have gone largely unheeded. Gilbert insists that neither he nor his fellow workers were ever told that Kepone could be hazardous. Unaware of the danger, many of the employees did not bother to wear the rubber gloves they had been issued. Others ate their lunches off tables covered with Kepone dust. Says Gilbert: "Nobody said this stuff was dangerous...
...such "dirty" industries as chemicals, mining and asbestos processing (TIME, Oct. 20). Cancer may also be linked with more elusive agents, including the level of radiation and the amount of sunlight in a given region. Some statistics are already available to support this thesis. Melanoma, a form of skin cancer, seems more prevalent in the sunny U.S. South, for example, than in the North. Man-made chemicals and pollutants in water, air and food have already been indicted in some kinds of cancer and are suspect in many more. Even so, the researchers pointed out that the work in this...
...destruction of the ozone layer that screens the earth from an overdose of the sun's ultraviolet rays. Using these reports, the Federal Aviation Administration estimates that simply granting the pending Franco-British request for six flights a day could lead to 200 additional cases of skin cancer a year...
Concorde's friends have some good points. Most researchers agree that a thinning of the ozone layer would lead to an increase in skin cancer. But there is no hard evidence that the ozone layer has been depleted in recent years, despite both high-altitude jet flight and the widespread use of aerosol sprays; indeed, at least one study suggests that the thickness of the ozone shield actually increased during the 1960s. The Concorde's designers admit that the ship is noisy on takeoff, but they believe that the effects of its noise may be at least partially...