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Septuplets a miracle? Consider the common marine toad. It lays 35,000 eggs at a time without benefit of Frankensteinian science--just pituitary, brain and gonadal equipment. In sheer numbers, the toad puts us to shame. Isn't it high time we acknowledge that septuplets are the result of scientific technology run amuck? With sheer numbers we relentlessly destroy our planet. JOHN E. SWISHER Key Largo...
BOTTOMS UP! Go ahead, raise a glass. The largest study yet on alcohol's effect on health concludes that a drink a day can improve longevity. Those who benefit most: middle-age folks who have had a heart attack or stroke, or are otherwise at risk for heart disease...
...parents Herb and Patty Burris, Jeffrey got his badge. But Jessica decided the campaign had merit and kept it going. And growing. Jessica currently has 20 kids her age volunteering for Sock It to Me. Now they also collect shoes, clothing, toiletries and money for medication, to the benefit of thousands of people. "We've had more than one party sorting socks," said her mother Patty, once a big-time volunteer herself. "I'll have a sleep-over with friends, and we shoot hoops with the socks we sort," added Jessica, who looks a lot like...
...high-energy electrons from an accelerator. The bug-zapping power of the process is undisputed. The ionizing radiation, millions of times stronger than ordinary X rays, kills molds, bacteria and small insects by wrecking their DNA, while leaving the exposed food virtually unchanged and radiation free. As a side benefit, it also eliminates the need for fumigants...
...know a lot of testimony by cops is false," says Alan Dershowitz, the Harvard law professor and criminal defense attorney who has popularized the term testilying. "But they only know it generically, rather than in any particular case. So in a battle of conflicting testimony, cops are given the benefit of the doubt...