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They're the rage this season -- long, flowing skirts made of rayon or rayon-cotton-blend fabric from India -- but they also may be deadly, according to the U.S. Consumer Products Safety Commission. The thin material can be consumed by fire in less than three seconds. Do you own one? The skirts have a layer of sheer chiffon over a gauze underskirt with an elastic or drawstring waistband. Consumers are urged to stop wearing such garments immediately and return them to the store for a refund. Questions should be addressed to the toll-free hotline set up by the CPSC...
...Havana residents, no doubt because of urban stress). About 10% of Cuba's 10.7 million people suffer from asthma, but asthma inhalers are almost impossible to obtain. Even such rudimentary supplies as sutures, syringes and surgical gloves are scarce, as are anesthetics. "We haven't had a simple cotton bandage to put under children's plaster casts for three or four years," says Dr. Julio Gomez, a pediatric surgeon at the Enrique Cabrera National Hospital, outside Havana...
...Cotton Mather, son of Harvard President Increase Mather (1685-1701), was "personally responsible" for the hanging of an alleged witch, Mitchell says...
...accused could recite the entire prayer without the "devil inside" causing a mistake, he or she was considered innocent. But Mitchell says Cotton Mather convinced the people to hang the "witch" even after he passed the test...
...years later, I return to this noble issue. It is spring after all: the living is getting easier, and the proverbial fish and cotton are starting to rise from their slumber. Moreover, since this column will hereafter strictly concern politics, education and books, this may be my last opportunity to reflect quixotically on eros and the public sphere. Indulge me this once, and then forever after, crack the scourge of reason upon my back...