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...Last month a couple living in Grand Island gave their local elementary school two years in which to rid itself of peanuts. Why? So their three-year-old son, who suffers from a severe allergy to peanuts, won't be exposed to peanut butter, peanut oil or even "peanut dust" when he enters kindergarten in the fall of 2000. This demand for a peanut ban has divided the community and placed school officials in a tough spot. Can't they accommodate this child's disability without depriving everyone else of Planters...
...Earlier this year an activist took refuge in a 40-ft. redwood sapling, and loggers felled the tree. Somehow the climber tumbled out unharmed. Last week's skirmish ended differently: with shouts, the whine of a chain saw and a falling redwood hitting another tree. As the confusion of dust and noise subsided, activist David ("Gypsy") Chain, 24, of Austin, Texas, lay with a crushed skull, dying...
...remains of a small moon that had been destroyed by a collision or the raw material of an incipient moon that had never had the gravitational muscle to pull itself together. Last week they reached a different conclusion. New images returned by the Galileo spacecraft reveal that the fairy-dust bands are debris blasted into space when the planet's four innermost moons were struck by meteors...
...quartet of small satellites ought to have been elusive targets for incoming debris. Orbiting so close to Jupiter, however, they lay in the path of any projectiles drawn in by the planet's gravity. When a rock hits one of the moons, it releases dust that follows the moons like smokestack exhaust...
...Sosa and the Cubs will play against the San Francisco Giants on Monday, the 162-game regular season is over, and so is the historic 1998 home run race. Mark McGwire did that with four staggering blasts in two days, leaving his comrade-in-forearms Sammy blinking in the dust and trying to help his Cubs find their way into the playoffs. Any Sosa comeback now in his extra nine innings is practically an impossibility -- though the definition of that word has changed a bit this year -- and perhaps no one is more relieved about it than Sammy himself...