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<text id=92TT2720>
<title>
Dec. 07, 1992: Health:Et Cetera
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1992
Dec. 07, 1992 Can Russia Escape Its Past?
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
THE WEEK, Page 30
HEALTH & SCIENCE
ET CETERA
</hdr><body>
<p> SAVING SKIN
</p>
<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>
</body></article>
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