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Small changes at home, such as using allergen-proof mattress and pillow covers and vacuuming with a high-efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filter, can greatly reduce a child's asthma symptoms, according to a study sponsored by the National Institutes of Health. Working in low-income, inner-city homes where children suffered from asthma triggered by indoor allergens--dust mites, cockroaches, pets, tobacco smoke or mold--researchers taught families how to reduce the level of those pollutants. A year later, children in those homes reported three fewer weeks of asthma symptoms than did kids in untreated homes...
...change in the heroin trade in late 2000 and early 2001 was as sudden as it was unexpected. Pina Bampi no longer uses heroin, but she remembers the desperation on the streets of Footscray, an inner suburb of Melbourne, when supply of the drug simply dried up. "People were so panicked, so worried about getting sick (from withdrawal)," Bampi says. "It lasted for three or four months, but to us that was forever." Though heroin is more available now, the ripple effects of the drought continue to be felt, most noticeably in national overdose-death rates, which have plunged since...
Defining moment: In 1957, Wada, now 70, joined Seibu Department Stores Ltd., working in the owner's inner circle. At 35 Wada was named a director...
...Malika Zeghal, a visiting scholar of Islam at the University of Chicago Divinity School, points out, it is in America, with its freedoms, that Muslims can reform not just their souls but also their communities. "In the rest of the world, Muslims are making change in the inner world," she says. "American Muslims also feel empowered to make change externally...
...warned: this is not your dweeby uncle's or your inner child's Star Wars. Not the trilogy that opened in 1977, 1980 and 1983, but the newer improved special editions of 1997, the ones with some new footage and updated computer effects. Says Jim Ward, president of LucasArts: "Those are the versions of the film [George] had always envisioned. It's really an artist's prerogative...