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When doctors discovered dangerous traces of radio-iodine in a Harvard researcher's thyroid. Robert U. Johnson was called in to investigate. A technical associate in radiological sciences with the University's department of Environmental Health and Safety EHS. Johnson questioned the researchers and other scientists in his lab and finally concluded that his hand had become contaminated and then touched his mouth as he drank coffee...
...with dioxin. It continues to show up in tainted water from Dow's Midland plant, has been found in fish in ten Michigan rivers and is the source of considerable anxiety among local residents. Says Diane Herbert, a young mother of two children: "Almost everyone seems to have thyroid problems, and there are a lot of skin tumors and allergies in pets." To assess those fears, Michigan's state health department is seeking state or federal money for a major study of dioxin's effects on residents...
...columnist almost always falls back on conversation to ensure a light tone and clarify his stereotypes. Congressmen Schmertz and Thyroid duel over whose rhetoric will cut more taxes, while Third World leader Bangambi complains to oil minister Ahmed that high petroleum prices are draining resources from the cause of the underdeveloped. "We shouldn't put a cut-rate price on our friendship," Ahmed responds. "The fact that we make everyone pay the same shows we respect you as much as we do the West German imperialist." The images are never complicated, and Buchwald doesn't hesitate to repeat his point...
...article he wrote for a pediatric dentistry journal last year, Valachovic asserted that children are more susceptible to radiation-induced carcinogens than adults because their thyroid glands are located higher in the neck. He said dentists treating younger patients should be "especially careful" when using radiology...
...deal with once the real problems are out of the way. Hence, when we are busy aiming for military superiority, busy trying to halt the spread of godless Communism through Latin America, busy worrying about four dozen stenographers in Tehran, we have no energy left over to worry about thyroid cancer and the chance of meltdown. Especially if addressing the problems of nuclear power would mean short-run worsening of "real problems" like inflation and dependence on foreign energy supplies. Especially if it would mean less electricity to run a nation of Betamaxes...