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While Steve Forbes, who dropped out last week, may have spent a mountain of money, he doesn't show that bad a return, considering the votes he won in the G.O.P. primaries and caucuses through March 12. Others have worse ratios...
...altitudes of about 10,000 ft. and higher, mountain climbers run the risk of developing a serious condition in which their lungs fill with water. Now scientists in Switzerland report that inhaling an extremely diluted dose of nitric oxide gas--about the amount present in Los Angeles smog--can help treat the problem...
...however, the anti-tobacco forces are taking a page from the cigarette makers' own playbook. "This king-of-the-mountain game they've played is a game that would be played by a schoolyard bully," says Northeastern University law professor Richard Daynard, chair of the Tobacco Products Liability Project, which conducts research for anti-tobacco lawsuits. "After you've beaten a couple of kids up, nobody dares take you on. But the moment the kids say, 'We can take him if we band together,' the bully is finished." It helps too that the new legal strategy of states filing third...
...case of NIMBY writ large, no state wants such a site in its backyard. As the nation's stockpile of spent fuel reached 30,000 tons, activists seized the issue as a way to hobble the industry, and the Energy Department announced that a permanent facility planned for Yucca Mountain, Nevada, wouldn't be ready until 2010; Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary now puts its chances of opening at no better than fifty-fifty. Bills to create temporary sites are stalled in both houses of Congress...
...Ordinary guys in the coffee shop really like what Buchanan says about jobs and values," said the store owner of Mountain's General Store in Barnstead...