PCB Contamination, Left Handed Sugar, Space Junk, and Other News Items

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ILLUSTRATION: FOTOLIA/PAUL FLEET
In addition to 1,156 working spacecraft, there were about 3,419 pieces of space junk orbiting the earth as of 1981.

AIRBORNE PCB CONTAMINATION: A new study shows that cancer-causing
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCB’s) are not only carried in the indoor
air of commercial, industrial, and residential buildings, but are
present in such places at a level of at least one order of magnitude
higher than in most outdoor locations. Defective fluorescent light

  • Published on Nov 1, 1981
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