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...study examined a total of 1,029 people, 638 of whom were randomly selected from both quarantined and unquarantined farms or had eaten food produced on them. The remainder were employees of the company that manufactured the fire retardant and others referred by doctors or checked at their own request. Among the randomly selected group, 37% had such neurological symptoms as loss of memory, muscular weakness, coordination problems and headaches; 27% suffered from painful or swollen joints. One in five suffered from a form of acne known to be caused by chemicals closely related to PBBs; 16% complained of gastrointestinal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: New Verdict on PBBs | 1/17/1977 | See Source »

...remember all too well how Dr. King led black people in the 1960s. Confronted by the horrid facts of inequality and impoverishment, forced by fear, frustration and loss of faith, we manifested our request for reform by moving into the streets of this nation. As a consequence of these actions, some changes were made. In a sense, much of the 1960s was therapeutic for the country. But what has happened since that time? What has happened to those efforts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leonard's Speech | 1/14/1977 | See Source »

...land is less of a worry to most Beirutis, however, than the potential loss of prewar political freedoms. At the request of President Sarkis, the Parliament has voted extraordinary emergency powers to Premier Selim Hoss, including authority to impose press censorship, rule through military tribunals and ban public assembly. The Syrian army, acting on its own swaggering gering authority, has shut down eight Beirut publications that were critical of a peace-keeping arrangement in which the Syrians control everything down to mail delivery and traffic. Four of the eight were small pro-Iraq or pro-Libya journals-thus in effect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LEBANON: New Era--or No Man's Land | 1/10/1977 | See Source »

Dame said that earlier schemes did not include the tunnel under Mass Ave, and that planners included it at the request of Harvard community affairs officials...

Author: By Joseph H. Yeager, | Title: MBTA Proposes Square Renovation | 1/7/1977 | See Source »

Final planning will start as soon as UMTA rules on the grant request, Dixon said, and actual construction would begin a year later if UMTA and the Cambridge City Council approve the plan...

Author: By Joseph H. Yeager, | Title: MBTA Proposes Square Renovation | 1/7/1977 | See Source »

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