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...chilling case is that of the so-called Tuskegee Experiment. In 1972, the Associated Press reported that for 40 years the United States Public Health Service (PHS) in Tuskegee, Alabama, had deliberately denied treatment to 399 Black men afflicted with syphilis in order to study the disease's last, lethal stages. James H. Jones, who published a meticulously complete account of the experiment in a book called Bad Blood (Free Press, 1981), notes...
...products. This one-sided debate has led to an increasingly polluted environment which harbors an ever-increasing number of probable carcinogens. The national death rate due to cancer has risen steadily since 1930, according to a 1982 American Cancer Society report. Although this rise in the incidence of lethal cancer could be attributable to medical advances which have conquered other previously fatal diseases, epidemiological studies point to another explanation, showing a clear correlation between the degree of urbanization and mortality for some of the major types of cancer in each area...
...independence and Gandhi's extraordinary role in it. With its well-defined moral lines and its success in presenting an individual whose godliness makes him difficult to imagine, it is a winning movie well worth the four hours of sitting (though, it should be noted, not worth the lethal headache that the terrific technological advances of the Sack Charles Dolby stereo system will almost assuredly give...
...electric chair caught on slowly in the U.S. and not at all abroad. During the 1920s and '30s, the cyanide-gas chamber became state-of-the-American-art. It too was popular only in the U.S. Now there are lethal injections, which are seen as still more "humane." This latest technical refinement, which the European press finds chilling and fascinating, seems sure to remain strictly a U.S. practice. Sums up Notre Dame Theology Professor
...reason is obvious: the show is high-proof, often lethal fun. Before the evening is through, the talented five-member cast has toppled icons up and down the Great White Way, everybody from those women of the year, Lauren Bacall and Raquel Welch, to those women of every year, Ethel Merman and Mary Martin. In a crater-deep voice, Nora Mae Lyng, 30, imitates Bacall in Woman of the Year...