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...growing number of scientists contend that radon's dangers are overstated. They point out that the EPA bases its warnings primarily on studies of lung-cancer rates among uranium miners. Such workers toil for years in subterranean pits where radon concentrations are thousands of times as high as levels in homes. In some studies, it was not clear how much of the cancer was caused by radon, how much by smoking cigarettes and how much by a combination of the two: researchers believe that radon poses a higher risk for smokers...
...Puzo's classic Godfather recipe combined zesty ethnic ingredients with basic American free enterprise. Good and evil were all in the family. Social values were relative, if not hypocritical. Puzo is not your average moralist. He does not pontificate from the high ground. His view of human nature is subterranean, not to say labyrinthine. The twists and turns in his new novel might have easily confused the Minotaur...
...deepwater quest began in 1984, when the Hunt brothers pioneered some of the new production techniques in a subterranean formation known as Green Canyon, some 240 km (150 miles) southwest of New Orleans. But they failed to make the big strike they needed to salvage their collapsing financial empire. Conoco followed the Hunts and had more luck, finding sizable deposits at the * 535-m (1,760-ft.) level. The company, with Occidental and Texaco, spent $400 million to build the world's deepest production platform, and has been producing from 20 wells for about a year...
...also wondered at the title "Arab Activists Massacred the Facts." If Enis is referring to the Subterranean Review's posters then he should know that there is not a single Arab member of the SR. If Enis is referring to those who participated in the anti-occupation demonstration on campus, he should know that the majority of participants were non-Arab, and in fact, included several Israelis. In light of this, I cannot help but ask myself if the decision to use "Arab" in the title was not racially motivated: an attempt to sway readers by focusing on the most...
...Subterranean Review writer Imraan Coovadia '91 on the killing of 19 Palestinians by Isreali police last weekend...