The Health, Science, and the Environment section of the proceedings contains the following 14 papers: "Privacy and the AIDS Crisis: Newspaper Practices Regarding Obituaries and Outings" (Joseph Bernt and Marilyn Greenwald); "Testing Truisms about Science and the Mass Media: The Case of Cold Fusion" (Bruce V. Lewenstein and others); "Comparison of 'The New York Times's' and 'Science's' Coverage of the Birth of Modern Atomic Theory: 1896-1922" (Erik Larson); "Women, Minorities, and AIDS: An Analysis of Issue-Responsive Programming among Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Commercial Radio Stations, 1989-1990. A study by the Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Task Force" (Roger N. Johnson and others); "News Sources and Power Elites in Newspaper Coverage of the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill" (Conrad Smith); "Routinization, Cooptation and Conflict: Environmental Stories in Two Agricultural Magazines" (Douglas Blanks Hindman); "Whose Public Interest?: A Study of Attention to Women, Minorities and AIDS in Issue-Responsive Commercial Television Programming, 1986-1988. A study by the Philadelphia Lesbian and Gay Task Force". (Rita Addessa and others); "The National Press and Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: A Significant Silence in Occupational Health Coverage" (Barbara Zang); "Environmental Movements and the Public Sphere: The Role of Alternative Media for the Creation of an Alternative Public Sphere" (Gudula Feichtinger); "Predicting Interest in Science and Quasi-Science Newspaper Stories" (Michael A. Shapiro and Saul Sarabia); "Mass Media and the Third AIDS Epidemic: AIDS Knowledge and Acceptance in a Rural Area" (William R. Elliot and others); "Between Facts and Values: Print Media Coverage of the Greenhouse Effect, 1987-1990" (Lee Wilkins); "Knowledge Gap Effects: Audience and Media Factors in Alcohol-Related Health Communications" (Fred Zandpour and Anthony R. Fellow); and "The Smoking and Health Issue in the Daily Press: Influence of the Regional Economy, the Tobacco Institute, and the Objectivity Routine" (C. Kevin Swisher and Stepehn D. Reese). (RS)