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...TAYLOR Public shame of aborted perfume launch is happily overshadowed by latest marital split...
...WOULD BE A SHAME IF THE PUBLICITY surrounding the so-called fat substance [SCIENCE, Aug. 7], an obesity-reducing hormone, fooled your readers into abandoning a prudent diet. Obesity is a life-threatening condition that has become prevalent in our country. Recently the National Center for Health Statistics reported that 34% of Americans exceed their ideal body weight by more than 20%. A quick-fix cure for obesity is a nice thought, but prevention of this problem is much wiser. ALEX HERSHAFT Bethesda, Maryland
...Shame on the citizens of Chicago and its suburbs for the way they coped with the heat wave and its resulting deaths [CITIES, July 31]. Wake up, Chicago! Why didn't residents sitting in their air-conditioned homes help their neighbors? Maybe this is not just Chicago's problem. Would this, could this occur in my city? Let's all learn from the tragedy and consider who in our neighborhoods would benefit from some basic human compassion during a time of need. PAULA WELLS-HUTCHISON Elko, Nevada...
...sand-filled brass or ceramic urn ashtrays. Twin glass ashtrays on pedestals flank the entrance to the Senate. Smoking has always been allowed on the Senate side of the Capitol, and members have always smoked behind the railing on the House floor. But this session, smokers light up without shame in hallways and other public haunts. Smoke wafts around the curving stone staircases and perfumes the Rotunda. In the House members' restaurant, the menu touts cigars alongside bean soup...
Scientists have also learned that far from being a flat, featureless plain, the sea floor is rent and wrinkled with a topography that puts dry land to shame. Not only do the seas hold canyons deep enough to hide the Himalayas, but they are also the setting for what is by far the largest geologic feature on the planet: a single, globe-circling 31,000-mile-long mountain range that snakes its way continuously through the Atlantic, Pacific, Indian and Arctic oceans...