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Comment PCB = Polychlorinated Biphenyl (Score 1) 773

by TheTony on Monday December 08, 2008 @02:46PM (#26036805) Attached to: Chemical Pollution Is Destroying Masculinity

The acronyms are both valid, but in the context of the Rotterdam study, PCBs are PolyClorinated Biphenyls (a type of chlorinated hydrocarbon), not Printed Circuit Boards. For the record, PCBs (the former) have been banned in the states for nearly 30 years.

Submission + - NASA tackles ethics of deep space exploration

Submitted by TheTony on Tuesday May 01, 2007 @05:40PM

TheTony writes: With long-term projects like manned Mars exploration on the horizon, NASA has begun discussing previously taboo subjects. Ethical and practical questions involving illness, death, genetic profiling and astronaut relations and behavior in space need to be addressed, as NASA begins to consider new policies with these extended missions in mind. http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/space/05/01/death.in. space.ap/index.html

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