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...newlyweds who set off the baby boom are now retirees with fixed incomes but growing demands on local services. "Senior citizens tend to have an increasing need for home maintenance, transportation, meals on wheels and a host of other support services," says Patricia Paruch, the mayor of Royal Oak, a century-old suburb of Detroit, where more than 20% of the 65,000 residents are over...
...first floor of the house was one open living area, from bedroom to kitchen, and a fireplace rises from the center of the room. The fireplace and chimney are a twisting, trunk-like work of masonry, made of brick with veins of rocks cutting through. Picture an old gnarled oak tree, substitute brick and stone for the wood, and you have an idea what the fireplace looks like...
...tell the people of Oak Ridge they might get cancer...
Could a health disaster be hitting Oak Ridge? Reid was determined to find out. Last August he called Martin Marietta Corp., which took over management of the government's nuclear complex from Union Carbide in 1984. The doctor wanted to report his concerns and ask what chemicals he should test for in his patients. If Reid thought that Martin Marietta and his employers at Methodist Medical Center would appreciate his initiative, he was wrong. Three weeks later, the hospital began a disciplinary process aimed at forcing him off the staff. The doctor suspects that the hospital and Martin Marietta were...
When Reid's dispute with the hospital hit the Oak Ridge newspapers this year, the public response was strangely muted. Residents long ago learned to live with radioactivity and risk. This, after all, is one of the birthplaces of the Bomb, a town whose very existence was a by-product of nuclear reactions. The federal complex is still the largest employer of the population of 30,000. Even the mayor is a physicist, and newspapers report levels of background radiation each week. But decades of studies have failed to find any gross health problems. Says Oak Ridge physicist Chester Richmond...