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...west, in the Nuevo Vedado district, Eugenio, a sports trainer, produces his ration book. For July he was allotted 6 lbs. of rice, 10 oz. of beans, 1/2 lb. of oil, 3 lbs. of sugar, 1 oz. of coffee, one bar of bath soap, three packs of cigarettes. No meat. In May it was rice, beans, sugar and coffee; no oil; no soap; no cigarettes; two cans of beer. No meat. Yet Eugenio will not be rafting. He is a master of resolviendo -- the Cuban art of barter, the cut corner, the gray market. His wife works in a cigarette...
...oz., Bradley Erwin looked like a healthy baby when he was born last March. He just didn't seem to get the hang of breast-feeding. His mother Kimberly, 38, a medical technician, tried to nurse him. "He would bob his head, root and try to latch on, but he wasn't getting anywhere," she recalls. "Everybody kept saying, 'Don't worry. Don't worry."' It was bad advice. When the infant was 12 days old, his parents rushed him to Children's Hospital in Cincinnati, Ohio. His breathing was shallow; his eyes had rolled back. "I was frantic because...
...year-old man for smuggling weapons-grade plutonium into Bremen, the fourth seizure in a widening scandal traced to ex-military contacts in the former Soviet Union. Last weekend police arrested other couriers who arrived on a flight from Moscow. They were carrying more than 10.6 oz. of plutonium-239, a substance so toxic that a few millionths of a gram can kill. Another seizure netted 4 kg, the largest amount ever discovered in private hands. Though German analyses reportedly show that all the plutonium came from the former Soviet Union, red-faced officials in Moscow today denied it, claiming...
...town meetings and health forums in Charlotte, North Carolina; Topeka and Fairway, Kansas; and Minneapolis, Minnesota, the President rolled out a new script with five simpler talking points. "Universal coverage," for example, is now "permanent private health insurance." But the President was hard-pressed to avoid minutiae. Like Oz, he was faced with a new wish list from every American he met. At the foundry forum, he talked with only six people but encountered six idiosyncratic sets of concerns...
...that it doesn't take a lot of juice to throw a baby's diet off kilter. Investigators at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, New York, examined eight children, ages 14 to 27 months, whose growth had lagged behind their peers'. Each of them was drinking 12 to 30 oz. of juice a day (a standard baby bottle holds 8 oz.). After recording what else the children ate, researchers realized that the fruit beverages accounted for 25% to 60% of the daily consumption of calories. "What would happen to adults who were taking a third of all their calories...