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...Chicago Sun-Times, and Nell Porter (Blair Brown), a Boston Brahmin working alone in her Rocky Mountain aerie to save the American bald eagle. They must "meet cute": assigned to write a story on the Bird Woman of Wyoming, Souchak climbs the mountain at risk of life and lung, falls asleep in Nell's cabin and is poked awake by her. They must reverse roles: he cooks goulash while she overpowers a pair of hunters. They must adapt their skills to the new environment: Souchak defends himself against a mountain lion by calling on his street smarts. They must...
...less concerned about pot than it is about hard drugs. The spraying in Mexico became a cause celebre after traces of the toxic chemical were found in pot smuggled into the U.S. When smoked in heavy doses, the tainted weed caused vomiting, hemorrhaging and, in a few cases, irreversible lung damage. Republican Senator Charles Percy's 1978 amendment to the Foreign Assistance Authorization Act prohibited the U.S. from providing money or materials to foreign countries for paraquat spraying. House and Senate committees recently voted to repeal that restriction, although the Senate version requires that a "marker" be added...
...that conclusion is being challenged by an analysis of lung cancer deaths published last month in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Epidemiologist Lawrence Garfinkel of the American Cancer Society studied data collected over twelve years on 176,739 nonsmoking women and concluded that those wed to smokers did not run a greater risk of dying from lung cancer than those married to nonsmokers. Garfinkel notes, however, that neither his study nor Hirayama's provides "definitive information" on the effects of passive smoking. "Classifying nonsmoking women on the basis of the smoking habits of their husbands...
...dustup over the Japanese study is the latest round in an ongoing debate. Other studies have indicated that passive smoking can exacerbate symptoms in people with allergies and heart disease and impair lung functioning in healthy adults. Some research has found that children whose parents smoke suffer more respiratory-tract illness. Only one thing is certain: where there's tobacco smoke, there's bound to be fire...
Superficially, coke is a supremely beguiling and relatively risk-free drug-at least so its devotees innocently claim. A snort in each nostril and you're up and away for 30 minutes or so. Alert, witty and with it. No hangover. No physical addiction. No lung cancer. No holes in the arms or burned-out cells in the brain. Instead, drive, sparkle, energy. If it were not classified (incorrectly) by the Federal Government as a narcotic, and if it were legally distributed throughout the U.S. (as it was until 1906), cocaine might be the biggest advertiser on television...