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...results demonstrate the need to regulate asbestos differently in this country, Talcott said. Unlike many nations, the United States treats all types of toxic asbestos as if they were the same, he said...
...have found a better way to make transplants succeed. Dr. Thomas Starzl of the University of Pittsburgh, the world's largest transplant center, is expected to report in the British journal Lancet this week that a new drug, FK-506, is proving to be more powerful and less toxic than cyclosporine. In more than 100 patients taking FK-506 for up to eight months, the rate of organ rejection was only one-sixth as high as in those using cyclosporine. Side effects were minimal, though long-term consequences remain unknown. The Food and Drug Administration calls the preliminary research "very...
...hike in the local sales tax, even though it was intended to offset part of the property tax. De Kalb's chief executive officer, Manuel Maloof, bemoans the deterioration of the federal highways and Washington's unwillingness to provide adequate funds for the national highway system and toxic-waste removal. But Maloof, a Democrat, is even more upset at his own inability to repair his county's sewers and pipelines. "It's all a residue of Ronald Reagan," Maloof says."He did more than most by telling us you don't have to pay taxes even though you still have...
...Administration's record has often seemed to reflect the short-term interests of the business community rather than presidential promises to provide international leadership. For example, some African | nations were outraged last spring when the U.S. seemed to be dragging its feet on a convention limiting the dumping of toxic wastes on the shores of developing countries...
...concern limited to the First World. A treaty signed in Basel, Switzerland, in March limits what poorer nations call toxic terrorism -- use of their lands by richer countries as dumping grounds for industrial waste. And on Sept. 7 more than 100 member states of the nonaligned movement dispensed with their past denunciations of the U.S. and instead called for "a productive dialogue with the developed world" on "protection of the environment." As if heeding that appeal, on Sept. 11, at an international environmental conference in Tokyo, Japan's new Prime Minister Toshiki Kaifu affirmed a pledge that his country would...