Perspectives

• Chemical Process Safety at a Crossroads
  Carolyn W. Merritt
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• Hazards of Fast Food
• Asbestos and International Organizations
• Exceeding the Methyl Mercury Reference Dose: How Dangerous Is It?
• Methyl Mercury Reference Dose: Response to Schoen
• Arsenic in Food
• Food and Population Growth
• Human Testing: Sass and Needleman Respond to Industry
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Environews

• Origins of Obesity
• Contentious Worker Testing
• Ozone Surprise
• HVAC Officemate
• EHPnet: MSU-MDCH BLL Test Program
• The Beat
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• Awards Spur Excellence in Research
• NIEHS Tops for Postdocs
• Headliners: Estrogen Exposure and Metabolic Gene Expression
• Beyond the Bench: Go for the GLO
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• Lessons Learned? Chemical Plant Safety Since Bhopal
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• Environmental Buyouts: Protection at a Price
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• Keeping an Eye on Exposure: Video Monitoring in the Lab
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• Forage Findings
• EMFs and DNA Effects
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Research

Storage of Serum in Plastic and Glass Containers May Alter the Serum Concentration of Polychlorinated Biphenyls
Wilfried Karmaus and John F. Riebow
p. 643
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Chemical Communication Threatened by Endocrine- Disrupting Chemicals
Jennifer E. Fox
p. 648
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Retrospective Time-Trend Study of Polybrominated Diphenyl Ether and Polybrominated and Polychlorinated Biphenyl Levels in Human Serum from the United States
Andreas Sjödin, Richard S. Jones, Jean-François Focant, Chester Lapeza, Richard Y. Wang, Ernest E. McGahee III, Yalin Zhang, Wayman E. Turner, Bill Slazyk, Larry L. Needham, and Donald G. Patterson Jr.
p. 654
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Synergistic Interaction in Simultaneous Exposure to Streptomyces californicus and Stachybotrys chartarum
Kati Huttunen, Jukka Pelkonen, Kristian Fogg Nielsen, Ulla Nuutinen, Juha Jussila, and Maija-Riitta Hirvonen
p. 659
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Urinary 8-Hydroxy-2´- Deoxyguanosine as a Biomarker of Oxidative DNA Damage in Workers Exposed to Fine Particulates
Jee Young Kim, Sutapa Mukherjee, Long Ngo, and David C. Christiani
p. 666
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Phytoestrogen Signaling and Symbiotic Gene Activation Are Disrupted by Endocrine-Disrupting Chemicals
Jennifer E. Fox, Marta Starcevic, Phillip E. Jones, Matthew E. Burow, and John A. McLachlan
p. 672
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Human Consumption of Methyleugenol and Its Elimination from Serum
Arnold Schecter, George W. Lucier, Michael L. Cunningham, Kamal M. Abdo, Greg Blumenthal, Andrew G. Silver, Ron Melnick, Christopher Portier, Dana B. Barr, John R. Barr, Stephen B. Stanfill, Donald G. Patterson Jr., Larry L. Needham, Woodhall Stopford, Scott Masten, Jill Mignogna, and Kuang Chi Tung
p. 678
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Biochemical Effect Evaluation of Perfluorooctane Sulfonic Acid-Contaminated Wood Mice (Apodemus sylvaticus)
Philippe Tony Hoff, Jan Scheirs, Kristin Van de Vijver, Walter Van Dongen, Eddy Louis Esmans, Ronny Blust, and Wim De Coen
p. 681
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Magnetic-Field-Induced DNA Strand Breaks in Brain Cells of the Rat
Henry Lai and Narendra P. Singh
p. 687
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Interlaboratory Comparison of Four in Vitro Assays for Assessing Androgenic and Antiandrogenic Activity of Environmental Chemicals
Wolfgang Körner, Anne Marie Vinggaard, Béatrice Térouanne, Risheng Ma, Carise Wieloch, Margret Schlumpf, Charles Sultan, and Ana M. Soto
p. 695
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Low-Dose Agrochemicals and Lawn-Care Pesticides Induce Developmental Toxicity in Murine Preimplantation Embryos
Anne R. Greenlee, Tammy M. Ellis, and Richard L. Berg
p. 703
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Backward Estimation of Exposure to Organochlorines Using Repeated Measurements
Wilfried Karmaus, Christopher Fussman, Jyotsna Muttineni, and Xiaobei Zhu
p. 710
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Maternal Stress Modulates the Effects of Developmental Lead Exposure
Deborah A. Cory-Slechta, Miriam B. Virgolini, Mona Thiruchelvam, Doug D. Weston, and Mark R. Bauter
p. 717
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Health and Environmental Consequences of the World Trade Center Disaster
Philip J. Landrigan, Paul J. Lioy, George Thurston, Gertrud Berkowitz, L.C. Chen, Steven N. Chillrud, Stephen H. Gavett, Panos G. Georgopoulos, Alison S. Geyh, Stephen Levin, Frederica Perera, Stephen M. Rappaport, Christopher Small, and the NIEHS World Trade Center Working Group
p. 731
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Human Genetics, Environment, and Communities of Color: Ethical and Social Implications
Julie Sze and Swati Prakash
p. 740
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Environmental Medicine

Association between Hemochromatosis Genotype and Lead Exposure among Elderly Men: The Normative Aging Study
Robert O. Wright, Edwin K. Silverman, Joel Schwartz, Shring-Wern Tsaih, Jody Senter, David Sparrow, Scott T. Weiss, Antonio Aro, and Howard Hu
p. 746
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Medications as a Source of Human Exposure to Phthalates
Russ Hauser, Susan Duty, Linda Godfrey-Bailey, and Antonia M. Calafat
p. 751
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Children's Health

Predictors of Personal Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Exposures among Pregnant Minority Women in New York City
Cathryn C. Tonne, Robin M. Whyatt, David E. Camann, Frederica P. Perera, and Patrick L. Kinney
p. 754
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Early-Life Environmental Risk Factors for Asthma: Findings from the Children's Health Study
Muhammad Towhid Salam, Yu-Fen Li, Bryan Langholz, and Frank Davis Gilliland
p. 760
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Probability Estimates for the Unique Childhood Leukemia Cluster in Fallon, Nevada, and Risks Near Other U.S. Military Aviation Facilities
Craig Steinmaus, Meng Lu, Randall L. Todd, and Allan H. Smith
p. 766
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Announcements

• Correction
  p. A 341
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• NIEHS Extramural Update
  p. A 371
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• Fellowships, Grants, & Awards
  p. A 372
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• Book Review/New Books
  p. A 382
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