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Daly knows that their work, first published last year in England, is hard for some people, particularly nonacademics, to handle. "One thing that has fascinated and puzzled us is the fact that people don't seem to like this finding. I'm not sure what that's about," he says. "Stepfamilies are conflictual. Everyone who studies them knows that. But there's a widespread feeling that somehow to make too big a deal of it or to talk about that too much is exacerbating their problems instead of helping them." Still, he holds his ground. "Single parents might do well...
...BREAK Washington's top agency for ferreting out hidden assets, the IRS, last week dedicated itself to tracking down a new type of missing treasure: lost, abducted and runaway children. With help from the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, the IRS will publish photos of missing children in its 1999 tax publications and instructions. One in six missing kids is found through such photos. So when your tax packet arrives this year, don't just toss it over to your accountant--look...
GOING UP IN SMOKE Add one more curse to the experience of a horrible childhood. A study in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association reports that adults who had experienced five or more negative childhood situations--such as abuse, divorce of parents or living with a drunken family member--were more likely to have taken up smoking. They were about five times more likely to have started smoking by age 14 than those with no childhood trauma. That's another good reason to identify and help troubled kids...
GENE BLUES Gene therapy has been going through a rough patch lately. First, a young patient died in the middle of his gene-therapy trial. And last week the Washington Post reported that half a dozen heart patients have died while undergoing a different form of gene therapy. These patients were already desperately ill, however, and it's not clear that the treatments had anything to do with their death. Gene therapy shows great promise, but anyone who is considering it should know that it's still very experimental...
...that some odors are detected more easily when they're flowing past nasal tissue quickly, and others when they're moving slowly. So the researchers tested human subjects with a mix of two chemicals, asking them to sniff through one nostril, then the other. Sure enough, as reported in last week's issue of Nature, the sniffers thought they were smelling different mixtures when they were really just getting a different olfactory take on a single mixture...