Word: high tension
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This is the high school, after all, which was the focus of the busing riots of the 1970s. The same parents from 20 years ago showed up last week, standing in the same place, shouting the same unbelievable things. It's a mythic story, one which incorporates the racial tension facing America today...
...play works best on the level of frantic comedy. Here, the high level of tension succeeds in its task. Both Selig and Haahr have an excellent sense of comedic timing, and play off each other well. They successfully embody "typical" Boston Catholics, and then gently poke fun at these same stereotypes...
...really is too late? In hopes of heading off future conflict, the U.N. is considering dispatching 700 peacekeepers to Macedonia. Ethnic tension there, already high, could explode if Slobodan Milosevic is re-elected President of neighboring Serbia...
...POWER LINES CAUSE CANCER? Numerous reports in the popular press have blared out warnings. Frightened citizens have abandoned homes located close to high-tension wires; others have gone to court to keep the lines away. The reason for the hysteria: a growing number of scientific studies suggest that the risk of leukemia and other malignancies rises with exposure to electromagnetic fields, which are generated in varying degrees by all electrical devices from high-voltage power lines to hair dryers...
This fog may finally start to clear because of two studies done in Sweden. The first, led by epidemiologists Maria Feychting and Anders Ahlbom of Stockholm's Karolinska Institute, looked at everyone who lived within 300 m (328 yd.) of a high-tension line in Sweden from 1960 to '85. Although the investigators could find no evidence of an increased cancer threat for adults, they did detect a higher risk of leukemia in children. The second study, led by Birgitta Floderus of Sweden's National Institute of Occupational Health, linked on-the-job exposure to electromagnetic fields and leukemia...