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...like to call it, is a remarkably democratic tradition. Whether analyzing the thought of Henry David Thoreau, Class of 1837, or that of John Muir (founder of the Sierra Club in 1892) or Rachel Carson, the environmental movement in this country is founded on a belief in the link between all human beings and their natural environment. Some of these links, as Carson sought to inform us, are of a direct, "scientific" nature. The chemicals that enter into and damage our environments have similar consequences on our bodies; it makes sense then to pollute less. Some of these relationships...
There is no proven reason, of course, to think that either of these steps is necessary. Never mind that the Federal Government insists there is no cause for alarm, or that no study has established a link between cell-phone use and illness. Shafransky and Wilson belong to a small but growing group of consumers who are fretting about whether there are health risks. The cell-phone companies contend the fears are unfounded but, savvy marketers that they are, most are quietly introducing more efficient--and therefore lower-radiation--phones...
...like China, with high rates of early-onset Parkinson's, it may play a role in a significant number of cases. Just last October, researchers at Duke University Medical Center went a step further, reporting their discovery of a previously unseen mutation on the parkin gene that appears to link it to late-onset forms of the disease as well. "Once we figure out how that gene functions," says neurology professor Ira Shoulson of the University of Rochester Medical Center, "we could perhaps disrupt it pharmacologically...
Carrie D. Griffin, a second-year law student, the third link in one of these chains, addressed Hulsey as "oh struggling one" and proceeded to explain to him that women are looking for men who anticipate their needs...
...Still, the circumstantial link will spur demands for further scientific inquiries. And the matter becomes more complicated for NATO by the fact that the country spearheading the demand for answers - Italy, which has lost six of its soldiers - also happens to be the one providing the bulk of the troops serving in the Kosovo peacekeeping mission. In addition, the tricky discussion won't be helped by the fact that the discussion comes at a time when the incoming administration of NATO's acknowledged leader, the United States, has signaled that it wants to get its own troops...