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Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 108, Number 2, February 2000
Environmental Health Perspectives February 2000 On The Cover: The need for clean water is one of humankind's perpetual environmental health problems. A variety of articles in this month's Environews discuss issues related to this most basic necessity.

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Perspectives

Editorial
    Environmental Medicine at a Crossroad: Health in the United States
    Samuel H. Wilson
    p. A 56
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Correspondence
    Health Effects of Hexachlorobenzene and the TEF Approach
    Hexachlorobenzene: van Birgelen's Response
    p. A 58
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Environews

Forum

  • City Ecosystems
  • Biomedical Research Goes Green
  • Making Fake Sludge
  • Menace of Microbes
  • The Beat
  • EHPnet: Water Environment Federation
    p. A 60
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NIEHS News
  • NTP Taps Disinfection By-Products for Study
  • Evaluating Floyd's Effect on Health in Eastern North Carolina
    p. A 64
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Focus
    Water World 2000
    The Other Side of the Coin: Too Much Water
    p. A 68
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Spheres of Influence
    Lessons from the Flood: Will Floyd Change Livestock Farming?
    p. A 74
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Innovations
    Saline Solutions: The Quest for Fresh Water
    p. A 78
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Science Selections
    Summertime Blues
    This Is Your Placenta on Drugs
    Challenging the Assumptions
    p. A 82
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    Commentaries

    Lines That Connect: Assessing the Causality Inference in the Case of Particulate Pollution
    David Vincent Bates
    p. 91
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    The Role of Epidemiology in the Detection of Harmful Effects of Radiation
    Alice Stewart
    p. 93
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    Research

    Articles
    • Environmental Estrogens Induce Transcriptionally Active Estrogen Receptor Dimers in Yeast: Activity Potentiated by the Coactivator RIP140
      Cameron Q. Sheeler, Mark W. Dudley, and Sohaib A. Khan
      p. 97
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    • Plasma Levels and Redox Status of Ascorbic Acid and Levels of Lipid Peroxidation Products in Active and Passive Smokers
      Makoto Ayaori, Tetsuya Hisada, Michio Suzukawa, Hiroshi Yoshida, Masato Nishiwaki, Toshimitsu Ito, Kei Nakajima, Kenji Higashi, Atsushi Yonemura, Toshitsugu Ishikawa, Fumitaka Ohsuzu, and Haruo Nakamura
      p. 105
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    • Estimating the Mortality Impacts of Particulate Matter: What Can Be Learned from Between-Study Variability?

      Jonathan I. Levy, James K. Hammitt, and John D. Spengler
      p. 109
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    • Impact of Climatic Change on the Northern Latitude Limit and Population Density of the Disease-Transmitting European Tick Ixodes ricinus
      Elisabet Lindgren, Lars Tälleklint, and Thomas Polfeldt
      p. 119
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    • A Time-Series Analysis of Acidic Particulate Matter and Daily Mortality and Morbidity in the Buffalo, New York, Region
      R. Charon Gwynn, Richard T. Burnett, and George D. Thurston
      p. 125
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    • 50-Hertz Magnetic Field and Calcium Transients in Jurkat Cells: Results of a Research and Public Information Dissemination (RAPID) Program Study
      Howard E. Wey, David P. Conover, Patty Mathias, Mark Toraason, and W. Greg Lotz
      p. 135
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    • Maternal Drug Abuse and Human Term Placental Xenobiotic and Steroid Metabolizing Enzymes in Vitro
      Pauliina Paakki, Helene Stockmann, Marjatta Kantola, Peruka Wagner, Urs Lauper, Renate Huch, Eivor Elovaara, Pertti Kirkinen, and Markku Pasanen
      p. 141
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    • Determinants of Polybrominated Biphenyl Serum Decay among Women in the Michigan PBB Cohort
      Heidi Michels Blanck, Michele Marcus, Vicki Hertzberg, Paige E. Tolbert, Carol Rubin, Alden K. Henderson, and Rebecca H. Zhang
      p. 147
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    • Dielectric Changes in Membrane Properties and Cell Interiors of Human Mesothelial Cells in Vitro after Crocidolite Asbestos Exposure
      Elke Dopp, Ludwig Jonas, Barbara Nebe, Axel Budde, and Eberhard Knippel
      p. 153
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    • Regression Analysis of Time Trends in Perinatal Mortality in Germany, 1980-1993
      Hagen Scherb, Eveline Weigelt, and Irene Brüske-Hohlfeld
      p. 159
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      PCB Congener Profile in the Serum of Humans Consuming Great Lakes Fish
      Harold E.B. Humphrey, Joseph C. Gardiner, Jasma R. Pandya, Anne M. Sweeney, Donna M. Gasior, Robert J. McCaffrey, and Susan L. Schantz
      p. 167
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    Children's Health
    • Outdoor Air Pollution, Low Birth Weight, and Prematurity
      Martin Bobak
      p. 173
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      Seasonal Influences on Childhood Lead Exposure
      Lih-Ming Yiin, George G. Rhoads, and Paul J. Lioy
      p. 177
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  • Extramurally Speaking . . . p. A 85
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