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...explains that once the warheads are removed, the sub-borne ballistic missiles can be used to carry commercial payloads into space. On the other hand, will all those unemployed Soviet nuclear experts be put to peaceful use? Despots may be yearning for their advice. Arms-control experts like Geoffrey Kemp are worried that Soviet scientists could be wooed by the highest bidders. Says he: "What if they're offered $100,000 for six months...
Wilder, best known as the nation's first elected Black governor, defies the stereotype of a Black politician. He sounds more like Jack Kemp than he sounds like Jesse Jackson...
With the help of the Consumer Product Safety Commission, Dr. James Kemp and Dr. Bradley Thach obtained information about 25 infants who died face down. All of the babies had been sleeping on soft cushions, filled with polystyrene beads, intended for infants. The two colleagues began their investigation with a simple test. Each held one of the suspect pillows to his own face and tried to breathe through it. "If you breathe into it for a minute or two, you're O.K.," says Kemp, an expert in the physiology of infant airways. "But after that you really feel...
...beads. So when they inhaled, they drew in stale air that was low in oxygen. "You end up breathing back in what you've just breathed out," Thach explains. "All the oxygen gets used up." Adults have enough lung power to suck in sufficient oxygen through the pillow, but Kemp and Thach determined that babies could not. By testing rabbits that had the same lung size as infants, the pediatricians proved that rebreathing into the bead-filled cushions was fatal for babies. The two investigators also determined that any movement by the children to free themselves only buried their faces...
...sure to fuel the controversy surrounding a question that should have been answered long ago: What is the safest position in which to put a newborn down to sleep? Pediatricians in some European countries recommend placing infants on their side, while most American doctors still opt for the abdomen. Kemp's advice to parents: "Don't put your baby in a position where something soft can cover its face...