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...DIESEL EXHAUST Grimy fumes from buses and trucks may boost lung-cancer rates. The Clinton Administration has called for new, low-sulfur fuel use in all diesel engines starting in 2007, perhaps cutting carcinogens...
...Mickey Mouse jingle is sounding again at station 121R on the Shanghai General Motors assembly line. The procession of semiassembled cars and minivans halts, and workers start frantically pulling off an exhaust pipe from a blue minivan. Dennis Dougherty, GM's man in charge of manufacturing, is watching the process apprehensively from 50 yds. away. Blue-uniformed Chinese engineers come running to help. But Dougherty doesn't move. Two minutes later, Mickey Mouse stops, the line starts moving again...and Dougherty's expression relaxes...
...American black bear, which normally gives birth to two or three cubs at a time, may walk away from one born alone, calculating that it's better to wait for a multiple birth next year than exhaust herself with a singleton now. Mice will examine offspring after they're born and eat undersize young, improving the overall fitness of the litter and giving themselves a valuable dose of protein in the process...
Every cloud has a silver lining, even a puff of exhaust. For some folks, there's a brighter side to the higher price of gasoline...
...romance novels. Factor in hardback sales, and romances account for about 40% of the fiction total. Almost 1 of every 5 adult books sold is a romance novel. Those 37.9 million women readers could devour three romances every day of the year and still not exhaust the annual output of some 2,000 new titles...