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>Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:43:37 -0800
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>From: Camp Responsible Tech <svtc at igc.org>
>Subject: Silicon Valley Cancer Scare
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>Greetings:
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>Last night (Wednesday, March 10) Dan Rather started a 2 part series on CBS
>nightly news that focuses on high-tech cancer, with interviews of former
>workers at IBMís San Jose plant.
>http://www.cbs.com/common/flat/flat_story_135041.html
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>Tonight (Thursday) part 2 will focus on the refusal of the industry to
>cooperate with government agencies to conduct a comprehensive health study
>to identify chronic health problems. (Check your TV listing for times.)
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>This TV reporting is the first major national TV coverage of these issues
>since an ABC dateline piece last year. It complements the current coverage
>in Electronic Business Magazine
>http://www.eb-mag.com/registrd/issues/9903/0399env.htm and coverage last
>year in USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Los Angeles Times.
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>For more information contact Leslie Byster or Ted Smith at Silicon Valley
>Toxics Coalition, 408-287-6707.
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>Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 09:26:55 -0800
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>http://www.cbs.com/common/flat/flat_story_135041.html
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>"I don't want to see other people facing this problem that I'm having," he
>says. It's a miserable, terrible, painful illness."
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