Word: calif
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...Said a senior intelligence official: "I expect terrorists to change tactics and attack U.S. officials and facilities again, maybe even in the U.S." The nature of terrorism is such that no one can tell where the next attack may come from. Late last week, a bomb in Santa Ana, Calif., killed Alex Odeh, 41, a leader of the American Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, after he called Arafat a "man of peace" on television...
Casmalia, Calif...
DIED. Herbert Bayer, 85, Austrian-born designer, painter, architect, photographer and one of the last surviving master teachers of the Bauhaus school, which believed that modern art and architecture should respond to the industrial world; in Montecito, Calif. Bayer was celebrated for his contributions to the Container Corp. of America's "Great Ideas of Western Man" campaign in 1950; during the 1940s he played an important role in the renovation plan for Aspen, Colo...
DIED. Charles F. Richter, 85, pioneer seismologist who between 1932 and 1935 helped devise the Richter scale, universally used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes; of coronary-artery disease; in Pasadena, Calif. Richter's interest in earthquakes was so great, he had a seismograph installed in his living room. In his final days, he avidly followed news reports on the Mexico City temblors from his hospital...
...shortness of breath to shock, coma and brain damage, as well as death. Asthmatics appear to be at greatest risk. The FDA estimates that 450,000 asthma sufferers, or 5%, are sulfite sensitive. For many, suggests Immunologist Ronald Simon of the Scripps Clinic and Research Foundation in La Jolla, Calif., the problem stems from sulfur dioxide, which is released by the sulfite solution. The fumes cause spasms in the bronchial tubes, preventing oxygen from getting into the lungs and blood. Notes Dr. Simon: "Asthmatics are exquisitely sensitive to sulfur dioxide...