Word: assessing
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...last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association by a team of researchers at the University of Utah Medical School. It found that women who smoke are about three times as likely to develop cancer of the cervix as nonsmokers. But the study, which also sought to assess the damage done by exposure to passive smoke, produced a surprise: women who inhaled passive smoke for three or more hours a day were not only more likely to have cervical cancer than those who did not but were as much at risk as active smokers...
...study, titled "Intolerable Risk: Pesticides in Our Children's Food," examines recent federal data on the eating habits of infants and youngsters through age five, along with figures on the amount of pesticides in 27 different crops. The information is then used to assess the long-term risk of cancer and neurological problems in these children. Eight of the pesticides are believed to be human carcinogens; all are used on fruits and vegetables frequently consumed by children, including peas, carrots, fruit juices and applesauce. Among the key findings...
...teams of divers from the U.S. and South America struggled last week to plug a hole in the Argentine ship Bahia Paraiso, which had sunk and was leaking 3,000 gal. of fuel a day, squadrons of scientists rushed in to assess the damage caused by Antarctica's first major oil spill. "This is the worst ecological disaster for Antarctica, period," says James Barnes, general counsel to the Antarctic and Southern Ocean Coalition. It is sure to stoke the already heated debate over the future of development, tourism and mining in Antarctica...
Alaskans were relieved to be rid of the worst of the freeze, but it would take weeks to assess the toll on the state. Schools closed, businesses ground to a halt, and hardy villagers huddled in their homes to keep warm. Furnaces shut down as heating oil turned to jelly, and stoves stood idle as propane gas liquefied. The greatest hardships occurred in central Alaska, where normal food deliveries were cut off. Governor Cowper called out the Air National Guard to parchute supplies into remote villages...
Having shown the wrong that was committed (the destruction of a classless culture in America), and the causes (a hierarchical, money-conscious elite that sought to divide itself from the riff-raff), Levine is free to assess the damages...