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  • From USA Today. Young students often most vulnerable to toxic air By Blake Morrison, Brad Heath and Rick Jervis, USA TODAY BATON ROUGE — From the front door of the aged brick school, the 4-year-olds at Wyandotte Early Childhood Center can spot the cottony plumes from a refinery just over the trees …

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  • … we can review the data objectively and make a decision how, or if, to manage our exposure to this chemical. First, to recap, BPA is a chemical used in plastics to make them harder.The chemical has been widely used in a variety of common products including baby and water bottles, sports equipment …

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  • … escape into the environment and mimic the female sex hormone oestrogen. The chemicals - found in food packaging, cleaning products, plastics, sewage and paint - trigger genital deformities, reduce sperm count and even turn males into females. Dozens of species - including polar bears, fish, bald …

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  • … McBean did say the detections were at levels far below the health limits set by all countries in the world, including Taiwan, where the limit is 0.05 parts per million. “We’re talking about trace amounts right here, and you know there’s a lot of scientific bodies out there that say low levels …

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  • … is Herculean, the authors conclude that it is feasible when compared with the efforts that went into World War II and that “the greatest danger is continued ignorance and denial, which could make tragic consequences unavoidable.” Top Scientific Meeting Urges Coordinated Response To Economic …

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  • … marriage of boy, 7, and girl, 4 EXTRA: Frankly, I fear that we will eventually no longer have the unknown… - USA Today: The Great Fear of the Unknown EXTRA: Roses are blue, violets are red, if we keep this up, classic poetry’s dead! - The UK Daily Mail: Pictured: World’s first truly blue roses go …

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  • OK, it doesn’t look like a party, does it? Serious stuff was discussed concerning safety and sustainability of plastics. On the Panel was Jan Steven and David Kasuma from Tupperware USA and Jamil Ismail from USM. At the end of the party, everyone got a door gift from Tupperware Malaysia - so in my …

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  • … to rigorous scientific standards. Here’s the board’s report. An earlier story in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinal charged that the FDA used research - and a research summary - provided by the plastics industry as the basis of its original conclusion that bisphenol A posed no problems. It looks like …

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  • “Researchers from Umea University in Sweden and the University of Maryland, USA, have demonstrated that nanosized electronic components cannot transfer information using plasmon technology. This is because electrons at that scale can no longer be defined, causing the plasmon to lose energy …

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  • … and entrepreneurs. Formalism pays: In the decades since, many products and skills that were the preserves of the big business have gravitated to the world of the small manufacturer: refrigeration, plastics, chemicals, tissue culture, auto spares etc being some examples. The ancient Indian enthusiasm …