This collection of nine CIR stories, reprinted from various periodicals, focuses on the health hazards of work in high technology. The booklet includes an extensive list of resources for high-tech workers at risk, health professionals and other interested readers.

Real estate speculation and skyrocketing rents are turning San Francisco's North Beach neighborhood into a giant Monopoly board. And the very qualities that made the neighborhood so attractive to developers - its diversity and characters - are the ones that speculative development threatens to destroy.

Today's new rugs, plugs and drugs offer a wide range of alternatives for balding men, and women. The author takes a hard look at the causes of problem hair-loss and its so-called remedies, from hair pieces to recently introduced tonics such as minoxidil.

Hundreds of electronics workers are afflicted with mysterious ailments that have made them hypersensitive to ordinary chemicals such as those in perfume and laundry detergent.