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MIGHTY MITES Ever wonder who's really in bed with you? Government researchers did. After collecting dust samples from beds in 800 homes, they declared U.S. bedding to be rife with dust mites--and their excrement. Droppings are estimated to exceed 2 mg per gram of dust, a level known to trigger allergies, in 44 million homes. In half of these, they're fivefold higher, a significant danger for asthma sufferers. What to do? Keep room humidity low (mites love moisture), wash linens in hot water and zip up duvets and pillows in impermeable, allergen-proof covers. Alas, these measures...
...factor working against state money for the merged school is Cambridge's declining enrollment and high number of empty seats--which will exceed 1,700 next year...
...drug craze? The answer may lie in a bit of insecurity underlying the nation's current economic prosperity. Sure, housing starts and luxury SUV sales are up, but our economic (not to mention medical) future is less certain. Horror stories abound of seniors whose medical bills exceed their monthly Social Security stipends, capped by this week's news that a study by the advocacy group Families USA has found that the prescription drugs most often used by seniors outpaced the national inflation rate by 50 percent in the past year. Put it all together and you have an issue with...
Does the right of a community to try to protect its children from released sex offenders exceed the offenders' right to privacy? That's the question weighing heavily on the minds of three U.S. district court judges who decided Tuesday to temporarily suspend the enforcement of Megan's Law, the New Jersey neigbor-notification measure named after a young girl who was raped and killed by a released sex offender who lived across the street. The judges, whose decision alarmed proponents of Megan's Law and relieved the lawyers, mainly public defenders, charged with protecting the rights of sexual criminals...
...tragedy has focused attention on the rise of fringe Christian groups in Uganda and elsewhere in Africa. Christianity is growing faster in Africa than anywhere else on earth. At current growth rates, in the next decade the number of African Christians will exceed the number of European believers: perhaps 520 million, in contrast to 470 million. This would leave African Christians second only to Christians in Latin America, who number around 700 million. Most of the tremendous growth is coming not in such historic mainstream denominations as Anglican and Roman Catholic but in newer, livelier, indigenous churches. "People find...