Newsweek

Locate newspaper mid/or news magazine articles in the library New York Times, Newsweek, Time, etc.) about a recent accident lliat involved evacuation of populations due to risk to llicir heallli and/or safety. From lliese sources, write a brief essay describing what liappcned, where tlie incident took place, the nmnber of people killed and/or injured, the iiiunediate impact in the community, etc. 

XIII International AIDS Conference, Durban, South Africa, reported in Newsweek, July 24, 2000, and other public press. 

Article Special Report, Stolen Children by David Geiman Newsweek, March 19, 1984 pg. 78-82... 

Begley, S., T. Hayden, W. Underhill, and G. Beals. Decoding the Human Body. Newsweek (April 10,2000) 50. 

Reibstein, Larry, and John Engen. One Strike and You re Out. Newsweek, vol. 128, December 23, 1996, p. 53. Explains that a 1996 law, intended to cut down domestic violence by banning gun ownership by persons convicted of even relatively minor violent acts, may result in many law enforcement officers being no longer able to carry guns. Police unions... 

The sale of tryptophan as dietary supplements for man is now illegal. Dietary supplements to animal stock feed is OK. Tryptophan is available to hospitals for use in critical situations. Tryptophan is available as a prescription drug. But it is not available in the health food stores and so cannot be explored by the lay researcher. The world of inquiring into the action on normals, schizophrenics, alcoholics, people who are overweight, people who are depressed, is denied both to the private individual and to the clinical researcher. There are commercially available drugs, all approved, that can play the same role. Within four days of the announced ban of tryptophan (after the problem had been resolved and corrected) a broad promotion of Prozac (an antidepressant similar in action to Tryptophan) appeared in Newsweek (March 26, 1990). Prozac is still widely promoted. Tryptophan is still not available to the private individual. Both can play the role of being an effective sedative. 

Other early articles in Newsweek (March 21,1994, The Estrogen Complex ), Time (March 18,1996, What s Wrong with Our Sperm ), Science News (January 8,1994, The Gender Benders, and January 22, 1994, That Feminine Touch ), and a British television special entitled Assault on the Male forecast a gloomy future for mankind ... 

Both Time (February 25, 1991) and Newsweek (July 15, 1991) had feature articles on lead poisoning in children not only from peeling paint in ancient tenements and leaded gasoline remnants found in the soil of the inner city, but in the remodeled older homes of middle income families. Lead is almost ubiquitous and very insidious in its effects. 

Newsweek "Indeed, the prohibitive laws against marijuana in America today, like those against alcohol in the 1920s, have not significantly diminished its use and, in fact, may have increased it."... 

According to Newsweek, the pharmaceutical market doubled between 1996 and 2000. As a whole, it generates 45 billion annually. Painkillers such as the legally produced fentanyl account for 1.8 billion of this figure. 

Kalb, Claudia. Playing With Painkillers. Newsweek (April 9, 2001). 

For more detail on these cult stories, see Tom Matthews, The Cult of Death, Newsweek (4 December 1978), pp. 38-43 Barry Bearak, Eyes on Glory Pied... 

Debra Rosenberg and MattBai, "Drinking and Dying," Newsweek, October 13, 1997, p. 69. 13. Raymond Schroth, "Brotherhoods of Death," America, October 18, 1997, p. 6. 

In 1970, the prestigious Italian newsweekly Panorama published an account of the mysterious death of Italian Oil Minister Enrico Mattei in an October 1962 plane crash on his was to a historic economic summit in Africa. (6) Mattel s plane was sabotaged during a contrived unscheduled stopover at an obscure airport in Sicily. Forty-eight hours before the crash, New Orleans... 

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