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...celebrate, but for many ex- smokers there is a weighty price to pay on the scale. Last week a study by the Centers for Disease Control confirmed what many former smokers have learned from experience: people who swear off smoking can expect to gain weight -- an average of 3.8 kg (8 lbs.) for women, 2.8 kg (6 lbs.) for men. More disturbing is the finding that 1 in 8 women who quit -- and 1 in 10 male quitters -- add a hefty 13 kg (29 lbs.) or more, while continuing smokers tend to gain much less. The CDC's report, published...
...already completing a plan that would set federal fishing quotas for 39 shark species. It would also ban live finning -- the cruel practice of catching sharks, slicing off their fins and tossing the maimed creatures back into the ocean to die. Dried fins, which fetch up to $117 per kg ($53 per lb.) in Asian markets, are used to make shark-fin soup, a gelatinous delicacy that sells for as much as $50 a bowl in a fine Hong Kong restaurant...
...greet someone face-to-face and to take a book from a shelf. Laptop word processors that "talk" give individuals with no voice a way to communicate. Materials designed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration reduce the average weight of a crippled person's leg braces from 6.4 kg (14 lbs.) to .45 kg...
...kg (4.5-lb.) device is about the size and shape of a clipboard. In place of a keyboard and an electronic mouse, there is a large liquid-crystal screen and a small electronic stylus. Want to draft a note? Just write directly on the etched-glass screen as you would on a piece of paper; the writing is transformed into letters that appear as if by magic. Want to change a word? Just circle it. Want to cross out a sentence? Just scratch it out. Want to add a phrase? Just draw a little caret under the insertion point...
...Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the main culprits are wild boars, descendants of animals imported to North Carolina in 1912 for hunting. The boars weigh as much as 136 kg (300 lbs.), and, says park official Joe Abrell, "tear up most everything in their paths." Man is responsible as well for oriental bittersweet, a vine imported to control erosion. It is strangling trees. Says park resource specialist Keith Langdon: "Once it gets a grasp on the land, it doesn't relinquish...