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...Orleans, Johnny Greene, a writer, was fired from an editing job with McDermott International Inc. after writing an article for PEOPLE magazine about his own suspected case of AIDS. "They just walked in and said, 'Get the hell out,' " he recalls. "I hope they were acting out of panic or confusion, not belligerence or homophobia...
Your informative article on radon [ENVIRONMENT, July 22] failed to express the panic, frustration and helplessness people feel when they discover their homes are unsafe because of radon contamination. The number of people affected by this gas is larger than the number of those involved in many natural disasters. Yet for radon victims, the Government provides no relief. Combatting radon by sealing walls and floors is not necessarily effective after a building is constructed. A better method is ventilating the soil around the home. Lester A. Slaback Jr. Gaithersburg...
...earlier this month that vitamin E confers no cardiac benefit on healthy women age 45 or older. What immediately grabbed everyone's attention in the J.A.M.A. study was the discovery that vitamin E slightly increased the risk of heart failure. That's a first. There's no need to panic. If you take a multivitamin, you're getting only 30 IUs of vitamin E, and this has long been shown to be a safe amount. And 400 IUs may yet prove to be fine. For complicated statistical reasons, the heart-failure finding could easily be a fluke, the study...
...field, it reinforced the notion that we're not sure just yet how we feel about Wells. Wells, Halama, Mantei, Clement: let's see how they do. Roberts we love and always will (and the betting here is, he'll be back one day). We love (No-Need-to-Panic, We've Got) Leskanic, unlikely winner of that pivotal Game Four. He's out of baseball now, but he's a Red Sox forever. So is Cabrera, who on April 11th did not fly to Boston but knocked in the winning run for his new club, the California (I reject...
...There's no need to panic. If you take a multivitamin, you're getting only 30 IUs of vitamin E, and this has long been shown to be a safe amount. And 400 IUs may yet prove to be fine. For complicated statistical reasons, the heart-failure finding could easily be a fluke, the study's coordinating investigator readily admits...