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...infancy was linked to a greater chance of developing asthma. The children became sensitized to the dust, and in many but not all cases their initial allergic reaction led to a chronic inflammation of the airways. "We spend 20 to 22 hours a day indoors," says Platts-Mills. "And newborn babies spend almost all their time inside for the first few months. It seems very likely that indoor allergens are one of the primary causes of asthma...
...unsentimental career woman, has spent most of the season making cynical jokes about motherhood ("Oh, right, the unforgettable thrill of passing a bowling ball"). Yet when the baby finally arrives, there's our new mother, misty-eyed, crooning (You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman to the newborn. For a gal who knows the words to In-A-Gadda- Da-Vida, she's starting to sound an awful lot like Debby Boone...
...fuel -- a product of Azerbaijan's economic blockade of the enclave -- has left Karabakh's factories silent, its workers unemployed and without pay. Schools that have not been leveled are closed. The basement of the partially destroyed parliament building serves as the city's maternity ward, where nurses tend newborn babies by candlelight. A member of the International Committee of the Red Cross, which opened a station in Stepanakert three weeks ago, said he fears the city could soon be struck by hunger, and, as the weather warms, by epidemics...
...whose strong + defense policy discredited Labour's now defunct creed of unilateral nuclear disarmament. Today recession-racked Britons are unsure where to turn. They are listening more closely to the clipped, almost military-style speeches of a man who spent his formative years defending Malaya against communist guerrillas and newborn Kuwait against Iraqi claims in the 1960s...
...late 1950 Kim Il Sung had been routed. Four months after his army invaded the South, the North Korean leader had fled his capital of Pyongyang as American-led U.N. forces pressed toward the border of the newborn People's Republic of China. Within a few weeks, though, Chinese "volunteers" poured into Korea and turned the tide of war, prolonging it for 2 1/2 years and keeping Kim's communist stronghold intact...