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...Using a blood test, researchers have for the first time quantified just how widespread exposure to SECONDHAND SMOKE is: 9 out of 10 Americans are breathing it, twice as many as generally expected...
Strassmeir left the U.S. in December, after being approached by one of Jones' investigators, and surfaced later in Berlin. Reached there by phone last week, he denied any role in the bombing. He acknowledged that three years ago he bought some secondhand clothes from McVeigh at a Tulsa gun show and "probably" gave him an Elohim City business card. Otherwise, Strassmeir insists, they have not been in touch. "The only connection between me and McVeigh," he says, "is that I bought an old pair of pants from...
...world of biblical scholarship by arguing that the papyruses are actually the oldest extant fragments of the New Testament, dating from about A.D. 70. Thiede's thesis, if correct, means St. Matthew's Gospel, as well as Mark's (on which it is based, in part), is not the secondhand account of Evangelists who were separated by decades from the Jesus of history. Instead, it reflects eyewitness testimony by near contemporaries of the carpenter from Nazareth...
...fastest-growing segment of the automobile market, largely because of consumer resistance to rising new-car prices and the brisk turnover in the booming car-leasing business, which accounts for 32% of all new-vehicle transactions. About six of every 10 cars and trucks sold nowadays are secondhand, and given the deep discounting of automakers on pristine models, a dealer stands to make about $300 to $500 on a used car, and only $100 or less on a new one. By switching to fixed-ticket sales--and fixed-salary sales staff--the new superdealers hope to lock in those margins...
What remains to be sorted out is how all this will affect the automobile business as a whole. Dealers in both new and used cars will probably flourish alongside the superstores, while independent operators who sell only secondhand cars will find the new entries deadly competition. Automakers, meanwhile, profess to see rosy possibilities in the change. Says Yale Gieszel, executive vice president of Toyota Motor Sales U.S.A: "I don't think you'll see a decline in the number of Toyota dealers in the next five years." Still, it is comforting to believe someone could actually want...