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...Louis Slesin's stories have a tendency to shock. Like the one about the 23 workers at the Bath Iron Works in Bath, Me., who got "sunburns" one rainy day when someone on a Navy frigate flicked on the ship's radar. Or the trash fires that start spontaneously from time to time near the radio and TV broadcast antennas in downtown Honolulu. Or the pristine suburb of Vernon, N.J., that has both one of the world's highest concentrations of satellite transmitting stations and a persistent -- and unexplained -- cluster of Down's syndrome cases...
...nearly a decade, Slesin, 43, has been collecting these and similar tales of electromagnetism seemingly gone awry and publishing them, meticulously researched and thoroughly documented, in an obscure bimonthly newsletter called Microwave News. His circulation is tiny (just over 500 copies), but he is well known in scientific and professional circles. And lately his message -- that there may be adverse health effects from the radiation emitted by power lines, computer terminals and other technologies vital to the information age -- has become front-page news...
...current issue of Microwave News, Slesin has printed what may be his greatest scoop: the key paragraph of a two-year Environmental Protection Agency study recommending that so-called extremely low-frequency fields be classified as "probable human carcinogens" alongside such notorious chemical toxins as PCBs, formaldehyde and dioxin. The recommendation, which could have set off a costly chain of regulatory actions, was deleted from the final draft after review by the White House Office of Policy Development. "The EPA thing is a stunner," says Paul Brodeur, a writer for the New Yorker. "It's a clear case of suppression...
...High-Tech" by Joan Kron and Suzanne Slesin has sold "surprisingly" well, he added...