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Controversy over the potential hazards of electromagnetism from neighborhood power lines has moved from the lab to the courts, as school districts and community groups mount protests or lawsuits against utility companies. New Yorker staff writer Brodeur convincingly argues that evidence exists that exposure to such radiation may cause cancer and other illnesses. Low-level microwave radiation poses another danger, he compellingly shows, as Cape Cod, Mass., residents discovered when an Air Force radar station built in the vicinity apparently led to abnormally high levels of cancer. Brodeur details and disputes scientific studies that claim such radiation is safe. He implicitly charges that a cover-up of the dangers has been engineered by industry, government, regulatory agencies and academia. He also reviews studies suggesting that computer video display terminals (VDTs) may induce cataracts, birth defects and miscarriages, and briefly assesses the potential hazards from electric blankets and electrically heated waterbeds. First serial to the New Yorker.
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Right up there with the best of them...Dr. Robert O. Becker's 'Cross Currents' and 'The Body Electric'.This book is equally as jaw-dropping as Becker's, and just like Becker's two, it's not jaw-dropping in an exaggerated, alarmist sense...the science speaks for itself.
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This man helped expose the asbestos problem in the late 60's. I'm way more inclined to believe the things he has to say as opposed to some government agency who's members sit on the boards of companies who stand to lose profits if something were done about this problem. Talk about a conflict of interest. Corporations run the world. They own the politicians. Learn some basic science and learn to form your own opinions rather than be swayed by articles in magazines that your loving government decides to spread it's propaganda in.
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Present the facts but tend to be repetitive. A good read for those new to effects of varying magnetic field.
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IN THE SPRING OF 1974, a woman named Nancy Wertheimer began to spend a day or two each week driving through residential neighborhoods in Denver, Colorado, stopping every once in a while in front of a house or an apartment building and climbing out of her car to have a look around. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
electrical distribution wires, electric blanket study, miniature swine study, wiring configuration code, childhood cancer study, sixteen hertz, unexposed control animals, proposed power line, electromagnetic fields from power lines, proposed transmission lines, heated waterbeds, microwave problem, local geomagnetic field, harmful biological effects, flyback transformers, primary wires, leukemia victims, pulsed magnetic fields, scientific advisory panel, weak electromagnetic fields, significant biological effects, adverse biological effects, household wiring, protein strands Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Air Force, New York, United States, Microwave News, Power Lines Project, National Academy of Sciences, Clam Lake, Power Authority, State Department, Houston Lighting, Project Sanguine, Washington State, Rochester Gas, Cape Cod Times, City Light, Health Department, Ontario Hydro, Rhode Island, National Cancer Institute, San Francisco, University of Washington, Upper Cape, Bureau of Radiological Health, Electric Power Research Institute, Los Angeles New!
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IN THE SPRING OF 1974, a woman named Nancy Wertheimer began to spend a day or two each week driving through residential neighborhoods in Denver, Colorado, stopping every once in a while in front of a house or an apartment building and climbing out of her car to have a look around. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
electrical distribution wires, electric blanket study, miniature swine study, wiring configuration code, childhood cancer study, sixteen hertz, unexposed control animals, proposed power line, electromagnetic fields from power lines, proposed transmission lines, heated waterbeds, microwave problem, local geomagnetic field, harmful biological effects, flyback transformers, primary wires, leukemia victims, pulsed magnetic fields, scientific advisory panel, weak electromagnetic fields, significant biological effects, adverse biological effects, household wiring, protein strands Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Air Force, New York, United States, Microwave News, Power Lines Project, National Academy of Sciences, Clam Lake, Power Authority, State Department, Houston Lighting, Project Sanguine, Washington State, Rochester Gas, Cape Cod Times, City Light, Health Department, Ontario Hydro, Rhode Island, National Cancer Institute, San Francisco, University of Washington, Upper Cape, Bureau of Radiological Health, Electric Power Research Institute, Los Angeles New!
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- The Electric Wilderness by Andrew Marino on page 35, and page 41
- San Bernardino Mountains (Explore! Guide Maps) by Automobile Club of Southern California on page 87
- Health and Safety (Statutory Instruments) by The Stationery Office on page 270
- Cape Cod (Penguin Nature Library) by Henry David Thoreau on page 113
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- Corporate Community Relations: The Principle of the Neighbor of Choice by Edmund M. Burke on page 113, page 122, and page 123
- Corporate Community Relations: The Principle of the Neighbor of Choice by Edmund M. Burke on page 113, page 122, and page 123
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