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Camargo said the report is likely to prompt other researchers to study the relationship between asthma and obesity in children...
...next wave" in fashion so vividly displayed in your report on young designers [FASHION, April 12] won't find me waving back. As long as fashion designers make bizarre, impractical clothes for 5-ft. 10-in. anorexic models and ignore a 5-ft. housewife who is nowhere near a size 10, I won't buy. ELIZABETH FIFIELSKI San Marcos, Calif...
...worked on nuclear-warhead design programs at Los Alamos. In 1995 U.S. intelligence officers learned that China had somehow stolen classified information about the W-88 miniaturized nuclear-warhead program. The ensuing FBI investigation found Wen Ho Lee had violated a number of lab security rules, including failing to report contacts with PRC scientists--lapses for which Department of Energy Secretary Bill Richardson fired him last month...
...food fight between the two continental trade giants continues. On Monday, beef was once again served up on the table of disputes as a May 13 deadline approaches for the European Union to lift its ban on hormone-treated beef from the U.S. The latest bone of contention: a report from European Union scientific experts stating that one of six typically used hormones used "has an inherent risk of causing cancer." The response from the U.S. side: baloney. "This is part of a struggle that has been going on for a decade," observes TIME U.N. correspondent William Dowell...
...over mad cow disease have only reinforced the European concern over anything that might be considered potentially suspect in foods. European solutions -- such as specially labeling hormone-treated meats -- have been rebuffed by the U.S. as just another means of keeping European consumers from buying American. The latest scientific report is now expected to reignite the seemingly endless dispute, and could lead the European Commission to request an extension of the May 13 deadline from...