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...Average number of points by which children exposed to high levels of secondhand smoke score lower on standardized tests than those exposed to little or no smoke...
...confirm the cause of the blaze, but a number of witnesses said that it started when one of the audience launched a flare - widely available over the holiday season - at the ceiling. Survivors spoke of a stampede as desperate teenagers scrambled to escape from the flames and thick smoke. "People were pushing and jumping over each other...
...enough of muddy paw prints on the couch or a mooching pooch prowling under the dining table? Here's a new, high-tech solution from Innotek, based in Garrett, Ind.: pet-proofing Zones, discs the size of smoke detectors that can keep pets out of rooms or away from areas 12 ft. in diameter. Available at innotek.net ($100 for a starter kit), Zones can easily be installed in a doorway or under your favorite lounge chair. As with outdoor invisible fences, dogs wear collars that react when the pets get too close to a Zone. Innotek says the signal...
...presidential campaign derailed after he appeared to cry in defending her against a newspaper editorial; in Bethesda, Md. At a news conference, Muskie choked up when he called the editor of the conservative Manchester, N.H., Union Leader a "gutless coward" for reprinting charges that his wife liked to smoke and tell dirty jokes...
...months right after Sept. 11, when smoke was still rising over the ruins of the Twin Towers, there were people ready to write the obituary for skyscrapers. Tall buildings were too inviting as targets for terrorism, too disruptive to the urban fabric and not even particularly profitable, since so much of the rentable floor space was taken up by elevator shafts. The only clients still interested in building them were in nations that wanted a symbol of their arrival as a contender in the global market, mostly in Asia's Pacific Rim. The honor of having the world's tallest...