Films, facts and fiction

Asbestos: facts and fiction.

Asbestos: Facts and Fiction I appreciate the opportunity to address the omissions, inaccuracies, and innuendos in the position paper by David P. Rall, "Media and Science: Harmless Dioxin, Benign CFCs, and Good Asbestos" (EHP 102:10). Unfortunately, Rail not only misinterprets the conclusions of our 1990 Science article by Mossman et al. (1) but he fails to mention the database, scientific panel...

Leprosy: Facts and Fiction

Teething: facts and fiction.

Artificial muscle: facts and fiction.

Mechanical devices are sought to support insufficient or paralysed striated muscles including the failing heart. Nickel-titanium alloys (nitinol) present the following two properties: (i) super-elasticity, and (ii) the potential to assume different crystal structures depending on temperature and/or stress. Starting from the martensite state nitinol is able to resume the austenite form (state of...

Corporate Earnings: Facts and Fiction

I nvestors’ conŽ dence in the quality and integrity of corporate Ž nancial reports has been seriously shaken of late. The ever-increasing procession of headlines about fraudulent earnings, in ated asset values and understated liabilities reported by erstwhile leading companies—the likes of Enron, Tyco, WorldCom, Xerox and a host of lesser household names, all audited by major accounting Ž rms—...