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...last summer, doctors have treated more than 70 people-Life Science employees and members of their families-for overexposure to Kepone; some 30 have been hospitalized. More victims of this environmental disaster may yet be discovered. For 16 months before it was closed last July, Life Science sent its toxic wastes through the Hopewell sewage treatment system and into the James River, one of the area's sources of fish and shellfish...
...hearings to determine how the Kepone disaster could have happened-and how similar events can be avoided. Virginia's Governor Mills E. Godwin Jr., the General Assembly, and the city of Hopewell are looking into legislation that will strengthen the safeguards against contamination of the environment by toxic chemicals...
...national level. Chemists are introducing new compounds at the rate of more than 1,000 a year, and only careful screening can spot potentially hazardous substances before they get into the environment. But new laws alone are not enough to protect workers and the public from exposure to toxic chemicals. What is also needed is a willingness on the part of various agencies to communicate with each other and to act. Federal, state and local officials had ample authority to protect the Life Science workers from Kepone poisoning. No one exercised this authority until it was too late...
...visited San Francisco last summer, it was something of a medical miracle. For eleven years the pretty Brook lyn housewife has suffered from chronic kidney disease. Like 24,000 other similarly afflicted Americans, she could never go far from the massive dialysis machines that purge her blood of the toxic wastes her kidneys are no longer able to remove. Yet during her 16-day trip, she shunned kidney centers entirely. Her unexpected freedom was the result of a remarkable new device: a portable mechanical kidney so compact it is built into a small metal valise...
...word "risk" often brings to mind medical or biological dangers-- chancy new surgical techniques or the testing of possibly toxic new drugs. But although psychological research sometimes entails physical risk--Leary was not alone in testing drugs, and electric shock, loud sudden noise and alcohol have all been used recently in William James-- more often the dangers are to the mind. Experimental psychology can invade subjects' privacy, stressfully manipulate their minds, or coerce them into unpleasant situations by intentionally deceiving them...