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...cigarettes do in fact cause serious health problems, and only 10 years after an official complaint was filed on the subject, one major tobacco company looks as if it may address another cigarette-related public relations disaster: The ease with which sleeping or distracted smokers can cause fires. The likelihood of these accidents is exacerbated, critics attest, by the fast-burning paper currently used in cigarettes. According to the New York Times, Philip Morris plans to announce Tuesday that it has developed a "safer" cigarette paper, which the company claims burns more slowly and generates less heat. The technology - which...
...your map showing how people around the world will spend New Year's Eve [LIVING, Nov. 29], you suggested that Yanomami tribe members in Roraima, Brazil, will probably ignore the millennium and go to bed early. But at midnight the men will in all likelihood be wide awake, huddling over their campfires and talking about life, just as they do every night. A tribal leader may explain what will be going on in other parts of the world on this night. The men will stand in awe trying to fathom this--for all of three minutes, after which they...
MacDonald says there is "very little likelihood" of a water disruption...
...This girl, my sister Sherri Beth Hyman, who in all likelihood will never live self-sufficiently or even graduate from high school, has taught me more that anyone I know: She has taught me how to love and how to treat others...
CLINK! Here's something to toast on New Year's: a major study shows that besides warding off heart disease, moderate amounts of alcohol may reduce the risk of stroke. The likelihood of suffering a stroke dropped 20% in men who drank anywhere from one glass a week to one glass a day. Any kind of alcohol works, but don't go overboard. Excessive booze--more than a few drinks a day--raises blood pressure, which dramatically heightens your risk of stroke...