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Environmental Health Perspectives Volume 105, Number 5, May 1997
Environmental Health Perspectives May 1997 On The Cover: Society and science hit head-on over the subject of genetic information. The Spheres of Influence discusses the latest attempts to legislate the issues surrounding who has a right to know it, who has a right to use it, and and who has a right to keep it private.

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Perspectives

Editorial
Thinking Big: Four Ways to Advance Environmental Health Research to Answer the Needs of Public Policy
Kenneth Olden
P. 464

Correspondence

Comparison of 17 Methods of Predicting the Carcinogenicity of 30 Chemicals . . . Response
P. 466
Commentary
Purpose and Guidelines for Toxicokinetic Studies within the National Toxicology Program
J. Robert Buchanan, Leo T. Burka, and Ronald L. Melnick
P. 468

Environews

Forum
Is Bt Better?
Dioxin in Russia
Utility Restructuring and the Environment
Update on Gulf War Illness
A Decade of Cleanup Research
EHPnet: Evolving Research

P. 472

NIEHS News

Science among the Saguaros
P. 478
Focus
Hormones and Health
P. 482
Spheres of Influence
The Laws of Genetics
P. 488
Innovations
Mobile Environmental Labs
P. 492

Research

Articles
A Lung Retention Model Based on Michaelis-Menten-like Kinetics
Rong Chun Yu and Stephen M. Rappaport
P. 496

Talc and Amosite/Crocidolite Preferentially Deposited in the Lungs of Nonoccupational Female Lung Cancer Cases in Urban Areas of Japan
Hiroyuki Yamada, Hisako Hashimoto, Masako Akiyama, Yoshinori Kawabata, and Kazuro Iwai
P. 504

Correlation of Environmental Carbaryl Measurements with Serum and Urinary 1-Naphthol Measurements in a Farmer Applicator and His Family
Dana B. Shealy, John R. Barr, David L. Ashley, Donald G. Patterson, Jr, David E. Camann, and Andrew E. Bond
P. 510

Association between Air Pollution and Low Birth Weight: A Community-based Study
Xiaobin Wang, Hui Ding, Louise Ryan, and Xiping Xu
P. 514

High Lead Exposure and Auditory Sensory-neural Function in Andean Children
S. Allen Counter, Marie Vahter, Gouml;ran Laurell, Leo H. Buchanan, Fernando Ortega, and Staffan Skerfving
P. 522

Alterations in Steroidogenesis in Alligators (Alligator mississippiensis) Exposed Naturally and Experimentally to Environmental Contaminants
D. Andrew Crain, Louis J. Guillette, Jr., Andrew A. Rooney, and Daniel B. Pickford
P. 528

Meeting Report

Asthma and the Environment
Hillel S. Koren and Mark J. Utell
P. 534
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