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...Main sponsors like Lucent Technologies put up hospitality tents and flew small airplanes with banners that advertised the company. Lycos.com, an Internet portal company, thrilled fans with a plane that spelled out "LYCOS" in smoke letters...
...guilty pleasure on a late Saturday night is settling in front on my TV and watching the terminally kitsch show "Your Big Break," another game-show import from Britain, which comes on after "Saturday Night Live." People come on the show in ordinary clothes, go behind a screen of smoke and emerge dressed as the singer they're about to try to sing like-Patsy Cline, Elvis, Janet Jackson, you get the idea...
...should you care? Even if you're not concerned that the world's greatest trove of biological diversity, including millions of undiscovered animal and plant species, is vanishing in a cloud of smoke, you should know that the burning of the Amazon is pumping countless tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, intensifying the threat of global warming...
Invasions of settlers can help make conditions even dryer. Land burned and cleared by farmers releases less water to the skies than forest does. Moreover, smoke inhibits rainfall by saturating the air with vast numbers of tiny particles, each of which can become the center of a water droplet. But the droplets remain tiny, and do not become heavy enough to fall to the ground, according to a study conducted by David Rosenfeld at Jerusalem University in Israel...
CRYING FOR A SMOKE New moms are often frustrated by the colicky cries of newborns, but according to one study there's something they can do about it: quit smoking. Researchers at the Netherlands Organization of Applied Scientific Research interviewed parents of 3,000 babies up to six months old and found that colic was twice as likely in infants whose mothers smoked 15 to 30 cigarettes a day, either during or after pregnancy. No data yet on Dad's smoking, but it's a safe bet he should put out the butts...