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...linked to cataracts. With less ozone, these disorders will increase; with no ozone at all, the UV could be deadly. Scientists have long suspected that decomposing CFCs in the stratosphere release chlorine, which acts as a catalyst, breaking ozone molecules apart. But it was all theory: Could the chemicals rise so high into the atmosphere? Might not the chlorine have come from such natural sources as volcanic eruptions...
Some industry experts think the luxury-housing bubble is bound to burst before too long. The economy cannot keep expanding indefinitely, and interest rates, including mortgage costs, are starting to rise from the low levels that have prevailed for the past few years. But as long as the heated demand lasts, the megabuilders intend to keep putting up mansions that Citizen Kane would not be ashamed to live in. Says Budd Holden, a Los Angeles luxury-home developer: "The people spending millions of dollars on a home are buying not so much a house as a life-style...
LaVergne (pop. 5,500) is a decidedly rawboned blue-collar town rather than a quaint Tennessee tourist attraction. Dotted with car washes and low-rise factories, it has a work force that exceeds its population. Mayor Vester Waldron describes the place as a "bedroom community without the bedrooms...
...ferries travel to docks called LDL receptors. More important, they learned that low cholesterol levels in the liver trigger the production of more receptors, which pull LDL out of the blood. But if the liver does not make enough receptors, the LDL levels in the blood will rise. The trick, Goldstein and Brown theorized, was to stimulate the receptors, thus reducing cholesterol levels...
...nine years later. In the meantime, Ramaphosa was busy helping to lead the Black Consciousness movement, whose charismatic young founder, Steve Biko, died in 1977 of injuries sustained while in police custody. Ramaphosa headed the university section of the South African Students Organization, a radical umbrella group that gave rise to several militant student factions that remain active today...