Califano doubles radiation estimate after Three Mile Island
HEW Secretary Joseph Califano told Congress that residents near the Three Mile Island plant received nearly twice the radiation initially estimated. He revised earlier claims that the accident would not cause additional cancer deaths, noting at least one and possibly up to ten extra cancer deaths among 2 million people within 50 miles.
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HEW
Joseph Califano
Congress
Three Mile Island
Califano
Senate
Harrisburg
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Miles
Edward Radford
University of Pittsburgh
Radford
National Academy of Sciences
Academy
Pennsylvania
Oklahoma Tornadoes Kill at Least Two in Lahoma Area
Tornadoes ripped through northwest Oklahoma causing about 4.5 million dollars in damage. In Lahoma a school, City Hall, 43 homes and a grain elevator were wrecked, with a rainfilled ruin of the school. Two people died and several were injured in nearby towns including Meno Coyle Enid Ringwood and Waukomis.
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Okla
Oklahoma
W.G. Harrington
Connie Jo Kerfoot
Meno
Walter
Luella Peterson
Highway Patrol
Jack Lawrence Baker
Houston
Coyle
Payne County
Enid
Buford Mayberry
Imo
Mayberry
Waukomis
Ringwood
Ulcer drug cimetidine linked to temporary sterility
Boston AP reports that the widely used ulcer medicine cimetidine can halve sperm counts and cause temporary sterility in about 10 percent of men. Researchers say fertility returns within six weeks after stopping the FDA approved dosage. The finding appears in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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Boston
David van Thiel
University of Pittsburgh Medical School
Food and Drug Administration
van Thiel
FDA
United States
Notable historic abdication and Titanic disaster facts
Napoleon Bonaparte abdicated as emperor of France in 1814. The luxury ocean liner Titanic struck an iceberg on her maiden voyage in 1912, claiming 1,513 lives from the 2,207 aboard.
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Napoleon Bonaparte
France
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