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...tobacco industry, which sued the EPA over the report, disputes the court judgments against smoking parents, arguing that the case against secondhand smoke hasn't been proved. In fact, some prominent scientists, including epidemiology expert Alvan Feinstein of the Yale medical school, believe the EPA may have overstated the evidence in its study. Nonetheless, most health researchers agree it is prudent to keep children away from smoke as much as possible...
...months pregnant, survived the ensuing crash unharmed. By Friday, police had already arrested the 20-year-old triggerwoman, a 5-ft. 3-in., 210 pounder with gold-capped teeth whom friends likened to "Gangsta Bitch," the tough street woman described in the rap song by Apache. Police also grabbed Alvan Hudson, 19, who they say was in the truck as well. The day before, they arrested the driver of the truck, Recondall Wiggins, 19, who seemed so stunned by the deed that he ran to confess it to his mother, a secretary in the Metro Dade police department. "Momma...
...Abdul-Jabbar is great whenever he wants to be, a characteristic he holds in common with the extremely talented Los Angeles Laker team. If the Lakers decide to sit back and sun-bathe the season away either Portland (with or without a truckin' Bill Walton), Phoenix (with a healthy Alvan Adams), or Golden State (with the league's best backcourt in Phil Smith and Barry-compensation John Lucas) will win the street fight for king of the West. Seattle is going nowhere without Marvin Webster. San Diego already went somewhere, but the Clippers are still Buffalo to those...
DIED. Dr. Alvan Leroy Barach, 82, developer of the first effective oxygen tent; at New York City's Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, where from 1922 to 1965 he had researched and treated respiratory disease. He searched for ways to allow his patients to lead normal lives, developing, among other devices, a portable oxygen dispenser mounted in a walking stick...
...files apparently contain information which, for instance, may help clarify the adversary relationship which developed between Lowell--a member of Governor Alvan T. Fuller's commission to investigate the case--and then-Law School Dean Felix Frankfurter--a Sacco-Vanzetti suporter...