Word: problems
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Victor Palmieri, U.S. coordinator for refugee affairs, told a Kennedy School audience of 30 yesterday that there is no clear solution to the problem of relocating the large numbers of Indochinese refugees in Southest Asia...
Occasionally, patients circumvent this problem, more or less, by marrying. Married couples get to move into larger living quarters, full-sized apartments with kitchens and dining rooms. In contrast, Tony's simple square space with wash basin in one corner and bed in another hardly allow room for a lively jitterbug. Still he insists the dormitory is perfectly adequate for his needs, or at least sufficient enough to forestall his planning a wedding in the near future merely to raise his standard of living...
...news services about the statistical likelihood of DES daughters to have more miscarriages and other pregnancy complications than the general population. I am upset not because, as one Radcliffe freshman said, "it scares me to death" but because the medical community is creating a flase impression of the DES problem. DES is a serious issue, several women have died of cancer. But more damaging is the scare techniques used by uncertain and uninformed physicians. When the DES issue first broke at the beginning of the decade, several women, on the advice of their doctors, had preventive hysterectomies. As is known...
Curent reports are equally misleading. My mother took DES because she had four miscarriages. Most mothers had the same problem. It could bery well be that DES daughters have pregnancy complications because of hereditary hormone imbalances or other inherited problems...
Acid precipitation is apparently caused largely by sulfur dioxide emissions from coal-burning power plants, smelters and factories. To a lesser extent, nitrogen oxides from car exhausts and industry contribute to the problem. Rising high into the sky and borne hundreds of miles by winds, these chemicals mix and react with water vapor to form sulfuric and nitric acids. The acids then fall to earth in the form of rain or snow that can damage anything from monuments to living organisms. After a number of such rain showers or highly acidic snow melts, a lake's pH* can plunge...