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- THE WEEK, Page 30HEALTH & SCIENCEET CETERA
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- SAVING SKIN
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- 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.
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