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...nature. Furthermore, his standing with the public is bolstered by a mighty reserve: Nancy. A special Wirthlin reading on the personal appeal of the big power players, which he dubs the "thermometer rating," with temperatures from 1 to 100, shows the President at 66, Nancy at 65. The nearest Cabinet officer is way down at a chilly...
...close range, though, the radiation-bearing plume could be deadly. The immediate danger was, of course, greatest for those nearest the disaster. Said Kerry Dance, president of GA Technologies, a San Diego reactor builder: "The people who are in trouble are those right at the site." Henry Wagner, a professor of radiation health sciences at Johns Hopkins, speculated that local residents risked exposure to extreme doses of radiation that could cause cerebral hemorrhaging, nausea, vomiting and death within hours...
Though adult smokers are not reduced quite yet to heading for the nearest high school bathroom, the places where they can legally light up are dwindling. Thirty-nine states and numerous localities now have ordinances against smoking on public transportation and in public places, including schools, hospitals, auditoriums, theaters and government buildings. Two weeks ago, New York City Mayor Ed Koch (who quit smoking in 1952) proposed what he termed the most stringent antismoking regulations in the nation. If enacted, Koch's law would forbid smoking in enclosed public spaces, such as taxis, stores and rest rooms (there goes that...
That comets do occasionally strike the earth seems certain. Some scientists think a tiny chunk of a comet, exploding in the atmosphere above Siberia in 1908, caused a tremendous blast and fireball in the Tunguska region, felling trees in a 200-sq.-mi. area and knocking the nearest residents (40 miles away) off their feet...
After settling down in Berlin, he decided that his time was being wasted going to school, so he decided to look for work. Choosing between agriculture and photography, he opted for the latter, for it "was the nearest thing to journalism for anyone who found himself without a language...