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...Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)--are associated with dramatic drops in IQ in young children. A study that tested children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years found that those with a blood-lead level of 10 mcg per deciliter (the CDC's current safety threshold) had, on average, a 7.4-points-lower IQ than children with 1 mcg per deciliter. Since the mid-1970s, when lead was taken out of gasoline, the median blood-lead levels in children have dropped from 15 mcg to 2 mcg per deciliter, but the CDC estimates that there...
...This seems to have the effect of granting people a more thorough investigation,” she said. “My opinion has always been that there should be no evidentiary threshold...
...Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) wrote, “If…we consider that the spiritual revolution has taken on a new, fiery tempo, that even the most ‘established’ basis of man’s intellectual life…stands on the threshold of the dissolution of matter, then we can maintain that only a few ‘hours’ separate us from this pure composition...
...this more lenient standard of “supporting information” and to standardize this new language in all of its printed and online material, so that victims who consider taking their cases to the Ad Board will not be dissuaded by what they perceive as an evidentiary threshold that they simply cannot meet...
Lenin's early death opened the way for the horrors of Stalin. Would Lenin have stopped them? The latest scholarship reminds us that Leninism was a brutal philosophy. As historian Helene d'Encausse wrote in her 2001 biography, "On the threshold of death, Lenin had hardly changed": he never backed away from the one-party, one-ideology, fiercely self-protecting state. When asked once why a group of political foes needed killing, Lenin had replied, "Don't you understand that if we do not shoot these few leaders we may be placed in a position where we would need...