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Best 'Sick Building' Detector Is Nature's Own Equipment

To the Editor:

The message in your article " Sniffing Out School Illness: Is It in the Air? "

March 18, 1998, was excellent and very timely. As I see it, one of the major

crises education faces is the degradation of indoor air caused by poor

maintenance, lack of knowledge about potential problems, and lack of a

proactive policy of dealing with air quality before problems ever arise.

But when you quoted Green, the director of environmental studies at

the Reason Public Policy Institute, you immediately lost my attention. Even

a cursory reading of that group's primary publication, Reason magazine, lets

you know that they are not going to be on the side of " reason " or scientific

evidence if it conflicts with their agenda.

The truth is that we can build safe, healthy buildings if we choose to do

so. We also have the technology to diagnose a " sick building " regardless of

the population.

When we get ill while spending time in a building, there is a reason.

Nature, in its infinite wisdom, gave us the ability to protect ourselves by

equipping us with senses that detect when there is a problem. The best voice

of " reason " is right between your own ears--use it.

Barbara Herskovitz

Tallahassee, Fla.

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