Tuesday, February 22, 2005

Pollutants cause huge rise in brain diseases

"'This has really scared me,' said Professor Colin Pritchard of Bournemouth University, one of the report's authors. 'These are nasty diseases: people are getting more of them and they are starting earlier. We have to look at the environment and ask ourselves what we are doing.'"

Someone, somewhere, should reprint John Brunner's "The Sheep Look Up" in an extremely inexpensive "thrift" edition and put copies on every street-corner . . .

3 comments:

W.M. Bear said...

Used and new from $7.98 on Amazon.com.
--WMB

Kung Pow Pig said...

I've never read that one by him. Only Stand on Zanzibar, and I loved that one. I'll have to see if I can find it at the library.

Mac said...

"The Shockwave Rider" is good stuff, too.