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...link. "Our reviewers are convinced that there is no suggestion that ((electromagnetic fields)) present in the environment induce or promote cancer," the Air Force concludes. "It is astonishing that the EPA would lend its imprimatur on this report." The Pentagon's concern is understandable. There is hardly a unit of the modern military that does not depend on the heavy use of some kind of electronic ! equipment, from huge ground-based radar towers to the defense systems built into every warship and plane...
...their homes. For young people approaching the housing market for the first time, there was no point of entry. In Massachusetts cities, a renter must earn $13.65 an hour -- more than three times the minimum wage -- to afford the $800-a-month average rent on a two-bedroom unit in decent condition. Under the Reagan Administration, the Federal Government cut housing assistance 75%, and much of what was left was wasted. The Department of Housing and Urban Development stopped subsidizing new housing and handed out rent vouchers instead. This increased demand without increasing the supply and set off a scramble...
Street Beat workers travel around in a minivan and a 31-ft.-long recreational vehicle, a wheeled medical-office-cum-rest-area equipped with an examination room, bathroom, shower and kitchen. The unit handles everything from minor scrapes and pregnancy screening to gunshot wounds. Forty-five percent of those tested for the AIDS virus are positive. "These kids operate outside the law and the health-care and social systems to such a degree that when they get on this van, they have no ID, no address, no nothing," says Ellen Flynn, 44, Street Beat's nurse practitioner...
...become more and more adamant in his insistence that the Soviet Union "cannot be divided." In fact, he has turned to the army, the KGB and the police to be the enforcers of his plan to stabilize the country. First he directed the KGB to form a special unit to supervise food deliveries from abroad; then he issued a decree establishing "worker control" groups to clamp down on black-market pilfering of food supplies. Last week he began his promised shake-up of the government leadership by going after the police. Two days later Gorbachev told the Supreme Soviet that...
...decide whether that "previously owned" car in the dealer's lot is a lemon? Call Auto Critic and have it dispatch a mobile inspection unit to check out the used car, van or truck in question. For $54 to $69, a certified mechanic will spend about 45 min. running the vehicle through a 92-item checklist, which includes the obvious, like turn signals and wiper blades, and the not-so-obvious, like axle seals and cover gaskets. The mechanic will even take the car on a test drive. Armed with the results, the would-be buyer can renegotiate or reconsider...