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...thirds, occur when young children lick or ingest lead-containing paint as it peels or chips off walls, the new study reminds doctors and parents that they need to be aware of less obvious sources. Imported products such as the ones studied by the Boston group are a particular problem, since environmental standards around the world are not the same as they are in the U.S. In countries like India, for example, leaded gasoline is still commonly used in cars (in the U.S. it was replaced by unleaded fuel in the 1970s), and the lead from car exhaust can seep...
Watch Your Mouth, And the Road, Joel I loved Joel Stein's essay "My Prius Problem" [Feb. 22]. What a brave man you are, Joel. You certainly like to live dangerously. From experience, criticizing women in general, and wives in particular - especially in print - about their driving is like having a permanent death wish. Michael Mayers, BARNET, ENGLAND...
...other stories, of a jazzy, prewar North Korea, full of concert pianists and painters and their nude models. It's hard to believe that Pyongyang was once a glittery Little Shanghai of waltzing, snaggletoothed flappers and buxom barmaids pouring shots of absinthe. But geonbae to the day this particular fiction of Hwang's is translated back into reality...
...they find the Carroll works dry and remote? Couldn't it be that kids were listening out of politeness to the big person sitting by their bed? Martin Gardner, author of the 1960 The Annotated Alice, thought so. "It is only because adults - scientists and mathematicians in particular - continue to relish the Alice books," he wrote, "that they are assured of immortality." Make that scientists, mathematicians and '60s potheads, who saw Alice's descent into the rabbit hole, the EAT ME cake and the mushroom-borne caterpillar as evidence of the first great psychedelic trip. (Watch TIME's video...
...care industry (such as the pharmaceutical companies) and labor unions in order to keep them on board and defanged, despite the heated negative reaction from his critics on the left and the right. He knew the intraparty disputes over divisive issues such as abortion and immigration would require a particular finesse. He knew that House liberals would ultimately be forced to swallow the more conservative inclinations of Senate Democrats (and that he could use the insistence of Senators that the legislation move more to the center to get the moderate bill he wanted without having to play the heavy with...