NAS to redo atomic studies found to be flawed

Article Abstract:

The General Accounting Office (GAO) and the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) found that a 1985 National Academy of Sciences (NAS) report on the low rate of cancer among military personnel who received radiation from atomic test explosions was marred by poor data-gathering. GAO and OTA said that the study should be repeated since the NAS included 4,500 people who were not present during the tests and left out 15,000 people who had been, thus invalidating the NAS's finding that the 47,435 atomic survivors had a lower than normal cancer rate.

Health aspects, Reports, National Academy of Sciences, United States. Government Accountability Office, Nuclear weapons testing victims, United States. Office of Technology Assessment

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Computer network rumours prove hard to kill

Article Abstract:

Subscribers to the computer network Internet are bombarding the FCC with form-letter complaints in response to a false report that the agency intends to tax modems and telecommunications users. The unfounded rumor, which caused the FCC to receive 150 to 200 letters a day in May 1992 from enraged network users, is probably due to a short-lived 1987 FCC proposal for a modem fee. It is to be hoped that network users will take the trouble to learn the truth about the FCC's policies before getting angry again.

Management, Computer networks, Taxation, United States. Federal Communications Commission, Tax policy, Internet

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