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- <title>
- Dec. 07, 1992: Health:Et Cetera
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
- Dec. 07, 1992 Can Russia Escape Its Past?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK, Page 30
- HEALTH & SCIENCE
- ET CETERA
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- <p> SAVING SKIN
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- <p> The earth's protective ozone layer is vanishing even faster
- than predicted. That warning from scientists has led 93 nations
- to agree to speed up phasing out use of chemicals that destroy
- the atmospheric shield. Updating the timetable known as the
- Montreal Protocol, delegates at a United Nations conference in
- Copenhagen moved up elimination of chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
- and carbon tetrachloride to 1996, four years ahead of schedule.
- Halons and methyl chloroform will be banned earlier too, in 1994
- and 1996, respectively. Researchers forecast more skin cancer
- as the ozone layer disappears.
- </p>
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- </body></article>
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