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| On the Cover. Rapid changes in China have left the country on the brink of economic superpower status, but at the high price of environmental devastation. This month, several news and research articles look at where China is today, and where it's going.
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- China Today: An Emerging Environment
A 516
- Is Perchlorate a Problem? Limited Impact on Drinking Water Safety
A 532 & 927
- Pesticides & Childhood Leukemia: Timing Is Everything
955
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Perspectives
Guest Editorials
- Geologic Environments and Human Health in China
Daoxian Yuan
p. A 500
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- Beijing Tackles Its Environmental Problems with a New Field Experiment
Xiangde Xu
p. A 501
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Correspondence
- Parental Exposure to Dioxin and Offspring Sex Ratios
- Dioxin and Offspring Sex Ratios: Jongbloet et al.'s Response
- Mechanistic and Epidemiologic Data: When Is Enough Enough?
- Duration of Breast-Feeding and PBBs
- Breast-Feeding and PBBs: Response to Rogan and Weil
- Chevron v. Echazabal: A Sobering Decision for Environmental Health Research
p. A 502
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Environews
Forum
- Reviving China's Ruined Rivers
- Beijing Goes for the Olympic Green
- Chinese Crops: A Soiled Image?
- EHPnet: Environmental Change and Security Project
- The Beat
p. A 510
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NIEHS News
Focus
Spheres of Influence
Innovations
Science Selections
- Reprieve for Perchlorate
- Weather Warning
- Locating Lead
p. A 532
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Commentary
Indicators of Ocean Health and Human Health: Developing a Research and Monitoring Framework
Anthony Knap, Éric Dewailly, Chris Furgal, Jennifer Galvin, Dan Baden, Robert E. Bowen, Michael Depledge, Linda Duguay, Lora E. Fleming, Tim Ford, Fredricka Moser, Richard Owen, William A. Suk, and Umit Unluata
p. 839
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Research
Reviews
- Can Environmental Purchasing Reduce Mercury in U.S. Health Care?
Patrick D. Eagan and Barb Kaiser
p. 847
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- Linking Dioxins to Diabetes: Epidemiology and Biologic Plausibility
Rene B. J. Remillard and Nigel J. Bunce
p. 853
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Articles
- The Effect of Weather on Respiratory and Cardiovascular Deaths in 12 U.S. Cities
Alfésio L. F. Braga, Antonella Zanobetti, and Joel Schwartz
p. 859
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- AP-1, NF
 B, and ERK Activation Thresholds for Promotion of Neoplastic Transformation in the Mouse Epidermal JB6 Model
Kazumi Suzukawa, Thomas J. Weber, and Nancy H. Colburn
p. 865
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- Long-Term, Low-Dose Lead Exposure Alters the Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone System in the Male Rat
Rebecca Z. Sokol, Saixi Wang, Yu-Jui Y. Wan, Frank Z. Stanczyk, Elisabet Gentzschein, and Robert E. Chapin
p. 871
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- The Association of Particulate Air Metal Concentrations with Heart Rate Variability
Shannon R. Magari, Joel Schwartz, Paige L. Williams, Russ Hauser, Thomas J. Smith, and David C. Christiani
p. 875
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- Y-Chromosomal DNA Markers for Discrimination of Chemical Substance and Effluent Effects on Sexual Differentiation in Salmon
Luis O. B. Afonso, Jack L. Smith, Michael G. Ikonomou, and Robert H. Devlin
p. 881
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- Comparison of Home Lead Dust Reduction Techniques on Hard Surfaces: The New Jersey Assessment of Cleaning Techniques Trial
David Q. Rich, George G. Rhoads, Lih-Ming Yiin, Junfeng Zhang, Zhipeng Bai, John L. Adgate, Peter J. Ashley, and Paul J. Lioy
p. 889
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- Hydroxylated PCB Metabolites and PCBs in Serum from Pregnant Faroese Women
Britta Fängström, Maria Athanasiadou, Philippe Grandjean, Pál Weihe, and Åke Bergman
p. 895
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- Effects of Hexamethylene Diisocyanate Exposure on Human Airway Epithelial Cells: In Vitro Cellular and Molecular Studies
Adam V. Wisnewski, Qing Liu, Jing-Jing Miller, Nadine Magoski, and Carrie A. Redlich
p. 901
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- Disease Transmission Models for Public Health Decision Making: Toward an Approach for Designing Intervention Strategies for Schistosomiasis japonica
Robert C. Spear, Alan Hubbard, Song Liang, and Edmund Seto
p. 907
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- Combining Xenoestrogens at Levels below Individual No-Observed-Effect Concentrations Dramatically Enhances Steroid Hormone Action
Nissanka Rajapakse, Elisabete Silva, and Andreas Kortenkamp
p. 917
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- Effect of Nickel Sulfate on Testicular Steroidogenesis in Rats during Protein Restriction
Kusal K. Das and Shakuntala Dasgupta
p. 923
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- Health Effects Assessment for Environmental Perchlorate Contamination: The Dose Response for Inhibition of Thyroidal Radioiodine Uptake in Humans
Monte A. Greer, Gay Goodman, Richard C. Pleus, and Susan E. Greer
p. 927
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Children's Health
- Home and Allergic Characteristics of Children with Asthma in Seven U.S. Urban Communities and Design of an Environmental Intervention: The Inner-City Asthma Study
Ellen F. Crain, Michelle Walter, George T. O'Connor, Herman Mitchell, Rebecca S. Gruchalla, Meyer Kattan, George S. Malindzak, Paul Enright, Richard Evans III, Wayne Morgan, and James W. Stout
p. 939
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- Mapping for Prevention: GIS Models for Directing Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Programs
Marie Lynn Miranda, Dana C. Dolinoy, and M. Alicia Overstreet
p. 947
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- Critical Windows of Exposure to Household Pesticides and Risk of Childhood Leukemia
Xiaomei Ma, Patricia A. Buffler, Robert B. Gunier, Gary Dahl, Martyn T. Smith, Kyndaron Reinier, and Peggy Reynolds
p. 955
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- Children's Respiratory Morbidity Prevalence in Relation to Air Pollution in Four Chinese Cities
Junfeng (Jim) Zhang, Wei Hu, Fusheng Wei, Guoping Wu, Leo R. Korn, and Robert S. Chapman
p. 961
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