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...Canadian asbestos workers. He found that the death rate among them from lung cancer was six times that found in the general population. Deaths from gastro-intestinal cancer or cancer of the esophagus were respectively four and six times more prevalent than normal. Worst of all, the death ratio for mesothelioma indicated that it occurred 100 times more frequently among asbestos workers than in the general population, or in one of every 100 workers...
...opposing architects, led by the Boston Society of Architects (BSA), a chapter of the American Institute of Architects, claimed that Hancock's request "to increase the floor-area ratio by nearly three times that provided in the zoning ordinance, is such a flagrant breach of the existing regulations that it would make zoning meaningless as a way of regulating land use in the public interest." The architects, in a somewhat foreboding note, also criticized the Pei designers for attempting "to reduce the apparent bulk of their proposal by cladding it in mirrors. This is a device untried on any scale...
...CHUL vote was apparently based on assurances from Dean Whitlock and Dean Rosovsky that the Faculty would be willing to consider structural changes in the CRR-statements that the students who proposed the CHUL resolution took to mean possibly changing the 7-4 Faculty-student ratio on the disciplinary committee...
...Hall handed Troy the pen and remarked, "This is your program." Troy's most passionate cause is education. Says he: "Everything Oklahoma hopes to be is bound up in the classrooms." Partly because of his constant needling, the legislature has doubled textbook funds, reduced the state's ratio of pupils to teachers and more than tripled special classes for students who are backward, physically handicapped or gifted...
...some places the ratio between men and women problem drinkers is already equal. For example, in Florida's Dade County (pop. 1,385,000), authorities estimate that there are 78,000 alcoholics-and almost half are women. At the Women's Alcohol Education Center in South West Miami, patients can relax in a pool or on a patio and their kids can play in a garage full of toys and live animals. The center is open from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m., and has a daily average of 18 women visitors...