By ERIC LIPTON
WASHINGTON — The Consumer Product Safety Commission is unnecessarily leaving the American public at risk through its failure to properly investigate a long-running series of lung injuries tied to widely available waterproofing sprays, public health officials from several states say.
The complaint concerns inexpensive sprays sold nationwide that rely on a water-repelling ingredient […]
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Marian Radke-Yarrow | b. 1918
The Anthropological Psychologist
By LAUREN SLATER
I wish I’d known the work of Dr. Marian Radke-Yarrow when I was pregnant. I remember more than a few close friends asking me if I worried about the particular packet of DNA I was passing on. I was concerned about the depression […]
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By JESSE McKINLEY
COALINGA, Calif. — When any of the 5,300 inmates at Pleasant Valley State Prison begin coughing and running a fever, doctors do not think flu, bronchitis or even the common cold.
They think valley fever; and, more often than they would like, they are right.
In the past three years, more than 900 inmates […]
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By JIM YARDLEY
BEIJING — Every day, monitoring stations across the city measure air pollution to determine if the skies above this national capital can officially be designated blue. It is not an act of whimsy: with Beijing preparing to play host to the 2008 Olympic Games, the official Blue Sky ratings are the city’s […]
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Huntsville Journal
When the Germans, and Rockets, Came to Town
By SHAILA DEWAN
HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — In 1950, this cotton market town in northern Alabama lost a bid for a military aviation project that would have revived its mothballed arsenal. The consolation prize was dubious: 118 German rocket scientists who had surrendered to the […]
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By ERIC A. TAUB
What if nobody wins the high-definition DVD format wars? That increasingly looks to be the situation for the next-generation DVD technology, which is available to consumers in two incompatible formats.
A little more than 18 months after their introduction, the two systems — Blu-ray, developed by Sony, and HD DVD, from Toshiba […]
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