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Almost every village in southern Lebanon has its variation on a common theme of misery. Last week TIME Correspondent William Stewart visited Rashaya Fukhar in the heart of the Arqub and sent this report...
This was the question that the Wisconsin team, headed by Dr. Richard Stewart, attempted to answer during a massive three-year study. Concluding that air-monitoring systems are almost useless as a guide, the researchers decided to measure the concentrations of CO in the blood of 29,000 donors at blood centers in 18 areas of the U.S. They accepted as the danger threshold the one laid down by the Environmental Protection Agency under the Clean Air Act: a 1.5% concentration of car boxy hemoglobin (COHb)-the proportion of the body's oxygen-transport system that has been usurped...
They use a solvent, trichloroethylene, which appears to be harmless in normal use; but Dr. Richard D. Stewart and colleagues at the Medical College of Wisconsin have found that it does not mix with alcohol. After working for about three weeks with TCE, a man who stops at the corner saloon for a few beers or a couple of boilermakers develops vivid red blotches on the face. This degreaser's flush is so unsightly and persistent that men who wish to be rid of it have a hard choice: quit drinking or quit...
...court was bitterly-and significantly-divided over the decision. The majority included all four of the "strict constructionists" appointed by President Nixon-Burger, William Rehnquist, Harry Blackmun and Lewis Powell-plus Potter Stewart, an Eisenhower appointee. They were heatedly opposed by the court's four remaining Warren-era holdovers-William Brennan, Byron White, William Douglas and Thurgood Marshall. White, Douglas and Marshall filed dissenting opinions. Marshall, the court's only black member, described the ruling as "a giant step backward" for the court in the desegregation area. "In the short run," he wrote, "it may seem...
...ranging from 300 an hour for 41,000 employees whose salaries were less than $8,000 a year, to 100 an hour for those making more than $12,000. The strikers reluctantly accepted the offer, but they warned that they would soon be back for another raise. Said Karl Stewart, executive secretary of the 30,000-member Ohio Civil Service Employees Association: * "This was just one battle. The war is still...