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TODAY'S BALLOT offers some fine candidates for state office and some not-so-fine ones too. What may be more important are the eight referendum questions which range from taxes to toxic waste to abortion...
BETWEEN 1940 AND 1975, industries have dumped 500 million gallons of hazardous waste all over Massachusetts, according to the estimates of the public interest groups that have been pushing the state to accelerate the clean-up of toxic waste dumps. That is enough waste to make more than 100 Love Canals. These poisons are distributed at an estimated one to two thousand sites throughout the state--the exact number is not even known yet. And at the current rate of public and private clean-up efforts it will be 50 to 100 years before these hazardous waste dumps are cleaned...
...appears to be as effective as AZT, but at least 10 times--maybe up to 100 times--less toxic," said Dr. Raymond F. Schinazi, a virologist at Emory...
From the start, the company and an independent review board had agreed that if AZT proved to be toxic, the patients would immediately be taken off the drug and the test halted. But if AZT turned out to be clearly beneficial, it would immediately be offered to those patients who had been receiving only the placebo -- which would in effect also terminate the study. But everyone, including Dannie King, Burroughs Wellcome's AZT project director, was reasonably confident that the study would run its full course. Said King before the results were known: "It's going to have...
...help carry gold ore to the surface. Suddenly, an acetylene tank sparked and flared. Flames swept through the tunnel, igniting plastic-covered wiring, which in turn set fire to polyurethane foam that keeps the walls dry and solid. Within minutes the mine shaft filled with thick black smoke containing toxic fumes from the burning plastic. Choking miners immediately fell and died of asphyxiation. When the initial 9 1/2-hour rescue operation ended, 177 were dead, one was missing, and 235 were injured, making Kinross the worst gold-mine disaster in South African history. All but five of the victims were black...