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      There have been articles on this in IEEE Spectrum and EPRI Journal.
Information remains inconclusive, but EPRI admits there may be a problem.
They now have a "dosimeter" for EM fields, and various power workers
around the country are wearing them to gather data.  They also tried
some telephone workers, and discovered that central-office telephone
workers have low exposure except for some working in older electromechanical
offices.  

      So far no study based on field measurements indicates increased
risk with higher fields, at least for field ranges seen in residential
areas.  There is apparently some increased risk to workers in very high
field environments such as electric furnaces used to melt metals.
The residential studies that show a correlation are based on visual
observations of distance to power lines and location of pole transformers.
But the geometries that should produce the strongest fields aren't those
associated with the highest levels of cancer.  And the cancer levels seen are
very near the normal level of occurence.

      There are reports of some cellular effects that take place in modest
electric fields.  But it's not clear that this has any relation to cancer.

      The biggest exposure is observed with electric blankets:
sizable current, close to the body, used for long periods, used regularly.
There are now some low-field electric blankets with twisted-pair wiring.

					John Nagle