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Common explanations offered by arm chair geneticists included "watching too much television," "studying too hard," and "smoking too much dope." But Dougherty said the presence of toxic chemicals in the environment--not in rolling paper--was part of the reason for the decline...
...Hemodialysis is a lifesaving remedy, though not a cure. Thrice weekly, patients with kidney failure get hooked up to a machine that filters toxic body wastes from the blood. The technique works, no question; the problem is money: about $25,000 a year in special centers, about half that if the treatment can be performed at home. Since 1973, the government has picked up the tab for dialysis (as well as for kidney transplant operations). The program now covers some 44,000 patients at an annual cost of more than $1 billion. By the 1980s the projection...
Intentional deception sometimes leaves the citizenry in a plight as awkward as Hendrie's. Last month a former ranking employee charged that the Hooker Chemicals and Plastics Corp. of Niagara Falls, N. Y., had kept workers in the dark about the hazards of toxic chemicals they dealt with. Federal atomic authorities, it was disclosed last month, were encouraged by President Dwight Eisenhower to confuse the public about the risks of radiation fallout during the atomic bomb tests in Nevada in the 1950s; Government officials refused to warn inhabitants of nearby regions that they were absorbing possibly lethal doses...
...nature these things are supposed to kill, so to say they are non-toxic is untrue." DiBerardinis said. He added that malathion is one of the least toxic pesticides available...
...appropriation hearings, witnesses from the Environmental Protection Agency claimed that they were unable to control toxic substances because they could not hire enough staff. HEW lamented that it could not correct abuse and error because of missing personnel in its newly created Inspector General's office. What reason did the scandal-ridden General Services Administration give for not speeding up its investigations? Because of Leach, there was a paucity of gumshoes...