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...would it? According to a report in last week's Science, the asbestos "crisis" is grossly exaggerated, and the public would do well to save its dread and its dollars. Says Brooke Mossman, a cell biologist at the University of Vermont College of Medicine and the lead author of the report: "Low-level exposure is not a threat to human health. The scare is unprecedented, and the amount spent on asbestos removal is ridiculous." In fact, say Mossman and her co-authors, removal often puts more asbestos into the air than was there in the first place...
...hours later the mob returned, and this time the wooden door began to splinter under the heavy blows. Arutyunov's wife Asya rushed to the balcony and screamed for the police. Interior Ministry soldiers arrived just in time to save the Arutyunovs from a seething rage of some 100 Azerbaijanis. "The soldiers told us to be ready to leave in three minutes," said Asya. "But what could I gather so quickly? We left with just the clothes on our backs...
Disenchantment of that kind may explain why N.R.A. membership has been stagnant while gun ownership overall is climbing. "Most of the gun owners of America are riding on the coattails of the N.R.A.," complains President Foss, "content to let us fight the fight to save their guns and be the bad guys in the media...
...agreeing to host the week-long conference organized by the U.S.-based Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders on Human Survival, the / Soviets sent a clear signal that they want to join the worldwide crusade to save the planet. Throughout the meeting, Soviet officials made an unabashed plea for more technological help from other countries in the battle against pollution. Said Mikhail Gorbachev in a speech to the conference: "The time is ripe to set up an international mechanism for technological cooperation on environmental protection." The need for a Soviet cleanup could hardly be more urgent. According to Alexei...
...latest hike in the Social Security levy is scrambling Washington's political alignments. Democratic Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, a New York liberal, proposes to roll back the Social Security tax from the current 7.65% to 6.55% over the next two years, a plan that would save $600 for workers paying the maximum amount. Moynihan would return the retirement system to a pay-as-you-go basis rather than piling up surpluses ($52 billion in 1989) that are diverted to finance other Government programs and cover up the full size of the federal deficit...