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...incidence of illnesses from eating contaminated fish -- including gastroenteritis, hepatitis A and cholera -- is rising around the U.S. Pesticide residues and other chemicals so taint New York marine waters that state officials have warned women of childbearing age and children under 15 against consuming more than half a pound of bluefish a week; they should never eat striped bass caught off Long Island. Says Mike Deland, New England regional administrator for the EPA: "Anyone who eats the liver from a lobster taken from an urban area is living dangerously...
...indecipherable slogans. But this affair was so organized it was downright Republican. Pearls and silk dresses were as much in evidence as bizarre headgear. No cigar haze wafted to the ceiling: the party made this its first no-smoking convention. . The aisles were crowded, but the speaker did not pound his gavel and yell for the marshals to clear them. The clusters around the states' computer terminals resembled Wall Street trading pits. And the delegates were so thin. "It used to be," says Political Consultant Mandy Grunwald, "that the quintessential Democratic conventioneer weighed about 250 lbs. Now everyone is slimmed...
...powerful shuttles and unmanned rockets lift off week after week, bearing construction modules and fuel supplies to a giant space station in earth orbit. There, skilled workers have been assembling the ship that will take the first humans to Mars. After more than a year of construction, the million- pound, ungainly looking spacecraft is ready. With a crew of eight, it separates from the space station and heads for Mars, following the Hohmann ellipse, a space trajectory that may one day be as familiar as a great-circle route over the North Atlantic...
...then again, Tony "Two-Ton" Tubbs was no Michelangelo's David either. When Tubbs fought Tyson in Japan a few moths ago, it looked like he had one too many pound of sushi and washed it down with a keg of Sapporo. But you couldn't remind Tony about his weight problem. He thought he could beat the champ...
...stands just under six feet tall in a sport where height makes might. Similarly, Bird's 165-pound frame continually put him on the lighter end of the swimming spectrum...