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CDC posts final report on fallout study
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The Centers for Disease Control has posted its final report on the
feasibility of studying health problems caused by fallout -- about
eight years after Congress requested it.
The report refers approvingly to a study that Dr. Joseph Lyon of
the University of Utah was conducting related to the connection
between thyroid abnormalities and fallout, believed to be the most
widespread harm caused by the radioactive particles. However, the CDC
killed Lyon's study last March after $8 million was spent on it.
Lyon estimated his study was about two-thirds completed.
"We should be doing that study," he ...
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GEE, GEORGE HIGGINS IS GOOD -- WHY DIDN'T ANYONE TELL ME?
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...Higgins is as much like the late Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett as Elmore Leonard. It is not just that Higgins, like Dame Ivy, advances his action almost...profanity with the niceness of Dame Ivy constructing a conundrum...
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ALMANAC
Newspaper article from: Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
; ...Thought for today: "There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best." - Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, English author (1892-1969). Copyright 2000 by Telegraph Herald, All rights Reserved.
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...economist, 1723; Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky, composer, 1882; John Maynard Keynes, first Baron Keynes, 1883; Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist, 1884; Federico Garca Lorca, poet and playwright, 1898; Gilbert Charles Harding, television...
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Birthdays
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Hill, founder of penny postage, 1879; "Le Corbusier" (Charles-Edouard Jeanneret), architect, 1965; Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist, 1969; Haile Selassie, deposed Emperor of Ethiopia, 1975; Earl Mountbatten of Burma, murdered...
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When HM turns over a new leaf.(Life)
Newspaper article from: Cape Argus (South Africa)
; ...complex every time Her Majesty asks him how the sheep back home are getting on. Her first choice of a book, by Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, is not much of a success but the Queen is nothing if not persistent, and her next choice, Nancy Mitford...
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Today in History - Oct. 21
News Wire article from: AP Online
; ...Thought for Today: "There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best." - Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, English author (1892-1969).
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The Buffalo News, N.Y., Olaf Fub Sez column: Olaf Fub Sez for 10/23.(Column)
Newspaper article from: Buffalo News (Buffalo, NY)
; Oct. 23--OLAF FUB SEZ: According to English author Dame Ivy Compton- Burnett (1892-1969), "There are different kinds of wrong. The people sinned against are not always the best." INSIDE TOURS of...
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STUDS TERKEL
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...quintessential American owed this turn in his career, at the age of 55, to the English actress Eleanor Bron - while Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett proved as sage an inspiration to him as his friends Big Bill Broonzy and Mahalia Jackson. Terkel, the last...
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An Unsuitable Book: The Bible as Scandalous Text
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...author refers to himself as "a rather maverick Hebrew Bible scholar" (p. viii), and he draws his title from Dame Ivy Compton-Burnett, who wrote in her novel Daughters and Sons that the Bible "is an unsuitable book for a child" (p. 1...
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Something Old, Something New: 'Pride and Prejudice' On Screen
Magazine article from: Australian Screen Education
; ...by the great twentieth-century novelist Ivy Compton-Burnett, but you don't find Dame Ivy cropping up on Year 12 syllabuses or on...not just the niche market there might be for Compton-Burnett), is its sheer accessibility. Of all the...
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