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Studies indicate that a baby crawling across a carpet can inhale the same amount of carcinogenic materials that it would if it had smoked three cigarettes a day. You can change that by vacuuming regularly, using nontoxic cleansers and buying special flooring, like InterfaceFLOR carpet tiles ($8 to $25 each), above, which you can mix and match for a custom look...
...Yankees, class act that they have always been under Joe Torre, watched all of this from the dugout, and not one of them budged when the Sox started walking the red carpet to get their gold. The manager had told no one they had to watch, but the Yanks paid the Sox due respect. Yes, sure, there was an aspect of they-have-what-we-want-and-so-let's watch-to-whet-our appetite to it, but by and large it was a noble gesture. The Sox, in another nice twist, were introduced in the order in which they...
Bendjedid's red-carpet welcome reflected Algeria's increasing importance to the Reagan Administration. With ties to both radical and moderate Arabs, Algeria could help revive Middle East peace negotiations. During a 90-minute White House meeting, the President agreed with Bendjedid that Palestinians should take part in any peace process but reiterated the condition that the P.L.O. be left out. The U.S. also hopes Algeria can help negotiate the release of five captive Americans, kidnaped by militant groups in Lebanon in the past 14 months...
...plants his feet on the carpet between the ottoman and the chair, folds his arms on his knees and stares hard at his listener...
...spreading widely with little water, buffel grass has migrated west from the rangelands of Texas, bringing a new threat, fire. To conserve water, most desert species in the Southwest grow far apart, making it hard for fires to spread. Buffel grass grows easily in dry soil, forming a carpet of dry, flammable stalks that burns very hot after a lightning strike and can engulf cacti, yucca, ocotillo and the paloverde trees. "None of the native plants have fire adaptation. If they burn, they die," says Tom Van Devender, a senior research scientist at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum in Tucson...