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"AcknowledgementsWe thank Dr. Ruth Allen, environmental epidemiologist and former US EPA program director for the Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project, Dr. Luc Anselin of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Dr. Dan Wartenberg, UMDNJ-RW Johnson Medical School, Piscataway, NJ, and Dr. Leah Estberg for suggestions, criticisms and comments that led to substantial improvements in the analysis and presentation. Dan Fagin of Newsday brought these data to our attention and encouraged us to undertake this analysis. The comments of Richard Hoskins, the co-editor of this journal, and three anonymous reviewers helped us improve the presentation of these results considerably. This study was partially funded by grant CA92669 from the National Cancer Institute (NCI). The opinions stated in this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the NCI."