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From: 34AEJ7D@CMUVM.BITNET (Bill Gorman)
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Subject: Don't touch that dial!
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Date: 27 Feb 91 05:07:31 GMT
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Here is an article that might be of interest, particularly to those of
us who make extensive use of computerized adaptive devices.

W. K. (Bill) Gorman
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|>From the Boston Globe, Sat. Feb 9, 1991 (page 21, under the obituaries):

|Study links leukemia to power lines, TVs (Lee Siegel, Asociated Press)
|
|Los Angeles - Children may face twice the risk of getting leukemia if they live
|near power lines, frequntly use hair dryers or watch black-and-white
|television, says a study sponsored by electric utilities.  The findings offer
|"considerable support for a relationship between children's electrical
|applicance use and leukemia risk," said a summary of the study by the
|University of Southern California.
|
|The University of Sourthern California study of 464 Los Angeles County children
|age 10 and younger is considered important because it was financed by the
|Electric Power Research Institute, which had been skeptical of earlier studies
|linking cancer to magnetic fields.  The study found children who lived closest
|to neighborhood power lines were up to 2 1/2 times more likely to suffer
|leukemia.  Frequent use of hair dryers and black-and-white televisions also
|increased leukemia risk.
|
|   That's the entire article -- does anyone have more information?
|   Martin Minow        minow@bolt.enet.dec.com