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...find a recycler that takes the trouble to actually recycle? One simple test: ask how many pounds of glass it sends out each year. Because of the toxic lead in glass cathode-ray-tube (CRT) monitors, dealing with them properly is the most important part of the recycling process. "If your vendor refuses to show a CRT-glass rate, you should be concerned," says Robin Ingenthron, who runs Good Point Recycling in Middlebury, Vt. He also suggests asking for an audit trail...
...Center for Children's Environmental Health and Disease Prevention at the University of California at Davis, toxicologist Isaac Pessah is studying hair, blood, urine and tissue samples from 700 families with autism. He's testing for 17 metals, traces of pesticides, opioids and other toxicants. In March Pessah caused a stir by releasing a study that showed that even the low level of mercury used in vaccines preserved with thimerosal, long a suspect in autism, can trigger irregularities in the immune-system cells - at least in the test tube. But he does not regard thimerosal (which has been removed from...
...child. "These antibodies are actually raised against proteins in the fetal brain," says Amaral, who recently submitted a paper on the discovery. The working hypothesis is that these antibodies may alter brain development in ways that lead to autism. If correct, the finding could lead to a maternal blood test and the use of a therapy called plasmapheresis to clear antibodies from the mother's blood. "You get a sense of the excitement," says Amaral, "if you could prevent, say, 20% of kids from getting autism. But we don't want to raise false hopes...
...which he reportedly swerved into the wrong lane through a construction zone and nearly hit a police cruiser. After finally coming to a stop, Kennedy allegedly staggered as he got out of his car and appeared intoxicated. The letter charges that the officers were forbidden from performing a sobriety test on Kennedy under orders from their watch commander and were told to drive him home. In his first statement, Kennedy insisted that he did not "ask for any special consideration" from the police. But a statement later issued by the Capitol Police said that the commander on the scene...
...hybrid that I’ve become.” Altenburg plans to move to New York for the summer and take classes on Broadway and in ballet companies while also balancing a job to pay for the expenses of dancing. She says that time will become the true test of whether she can go back to dancing professionally after she graduates. “Most girls are 17 when they enter ballet companies to dance professionally, and by the time I graduate, I’ll be 22,” Altenburg says. But she does not seem...