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From: andy@carcoar.Stanford.EDU (Andy Freeman)
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Subject: Re: Electrical power line radiation health hazard
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Date: 1 Jun 88 17:43:44 GMT
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In article <5930@cup.portal.com> Patrick_A_Townson@cup.portal.com writes:
>My god man, we are talking about human lives here! Is the right to use an
>air conditioner in your home on a sultry summer night worth a human life?

Patrick was being sarcastic, but it turns out that a lot of people do
die due to heat.  It would be fairly cheap to reduce the total by a
lot, but that's not as sexy as medical research which doesn't save
nearly as many people even though it costs more.  Besides, most of the
people that it would help are old, in addition to being poor, so who
cares anyway.

-andy