Electromagnetic Fields: A Consumer's Guide to the Issues and How to Protect Ourselves by B. Blake Levitt |
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by George Louis Carlo
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by B. Blake Levitt
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by Paul Brodeur
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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.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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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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