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...bags do little good when a driver gets sideswiped, they have already helped prevent serious injuries, and possibly deaths, in head-on collisions. On a wet Connecticut road, the car of one Traveler's Insurance employee skidded into a truck carrying propane gas, but she walked away with minor bruises...
...England Journal of Medicine. The study, financed by the National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke (NINCDS), in Bethesda, Md., involved 1,377 patients at 71 leading medical centers in such cities as Budapest, Kyoto and Cleveland. Each of the subjects had experienced either a minor stroke or warning signals known as transient ischemic attacks. Such attacks, which may result in dizzy spells, temporary loss of vision or speech, or numbness in a hand or limb, signal that arteries supplying various parts of the brain have become narrowed and a stroke may be imminent...
Arthur Walker, 51 , was supposed to have been a minor figure in the notorious family spy ring. Nonetheless, in Norfolk last week Federal Judge J. Calvitt Clarke Jr. threw the book at him: three life sentences plus 40 years, to run concurrently, for passing two classified documents dealing with Navy ships to his brother John for transmission to the Soviets. Clarke also fined Walker $250,000, to guarantee that he will not profit by selling his story of espionage (there have been rumors of such a deal). John, 48, the acknowledged head of the ring, earlier had drawn a single...
...second-guessing about the event could go on for months. Meanwhile, the danger from Nevado del Ruiz may still be far from over. Says the University of Pisa's Barberi: "Other explosions are certain to take place. It may be that the phenomena will be of minor intensity, but they will be equally dangerous." For one thing, he asserts, the large glaciers that surround the crater of Nevado del Ruiz have still not been warmed by the eruptions. If those rivers of ice should melt, they would create additional mud avalanches that would place rescuers in serious danger...
...combat terrorism and will attempt to improve relations between the predominantly Protestant security forces and the Catholic community. It will delve into legal matters, perhaps proposing that courts handling security cases be made up of judges from Ireland as well as Britain. It will even deal with such relatively minor but deeply emotional matters as the longstanding ban on the flying of the Irish flag in the province. Such concessions to the Catholic minority are certain to prove unsettling to the Protestants, who are skeptical about British assurances that there will be no future change in the status of Northern...