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...study from the Southern California Earthquake Center says that there is an 86 percent likelihood that an earthquake of magnitude 7 or higher will hit Southern California by the year 2024. This is the most severe forecast so far. Last year's Northridge quake registered 6.7 on the Richter scale. It killed 61 people and injured...
...compromise before a team owners' deadline Thursday to impose a controversial cap on players' salaries. Barring a surprise, today's failure to see eye-to-eye makes it likely the players' union will challenge the cap before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), prompting lengthy proceedings and increasing the likelihood that teams will go to spring training with replacement players. Meanwhile, the NLRB hours earlier said it would charge owners with failure to bargain in good faith and with discriminating against union members, specifically because the owners failed to pay almost $8 million to the players' benefit plan in August...
Frisch theorizes that women with high concentrations of estrogen must disperse the hormone, which may increase the likelihood of errors in cell division, leading to cancer...
Both practices increase the likelihood of genetic disease. It is not that purebreds have more defective genes than other dogs, or that inbreeding - somehow causes healthy genes to go bad. Most hereditary disorders in dogs are caused by recessive genes; as long as an animal has a good copy of the gene from one parent, it will override a bad copy from the other parent. But if both parents pass on the same bad gene -- which is more likely if mother and father come from the same family -- the puppy has a problem...
...jobs helped boost the Conference Board's index of consumer confidence in November to its highest level in four years; the personal income of Americans grew a healthy 1.4%. Measures of consumer spending and manufacturing strength also surged. About the only dissonant note was the likelihood that all the good news will cause the Federal Reserve, which has already jacked up interest rates six times this year, to raise them again by early 1995 in order to slow the economy and keep inflation in check...