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Babies whose parents smoke are twice as likely to die of sudden infant death syndrome than those who live in a smoke-free household according to a study to be published in tomorrow's Journal of the American Medical Association. Researchers discovered that the likelihood of a child dying jumped to 3.5 times higher when more than one smoker lived in the house. Increased risk was also linked to the number of cigarettes smoked and to cases when a person smoked in the same room as the infant. The study found no connection between the mysterious syndrome and a baby...
...observations were moved to the head of the Hubble schedule, and by July, Freedman was looking at a pattern on her computer screen that was as familiar as the face of an old friend. "Boom!" she remembers. "All of a sudden there was this glorious Cepheid light curve, as beautiful as any that have ever been measured." By the end of the observing run, Freedman and her colleagues found 19 more, enough to peg M100's distance at some 56 million light-years from Earth...
...happened all of a sudden in predawn darkness. My house was almost destroyed. It was a nightmare. Like a thunderbolt, violent movement ran through our street. After this tragic moment, deep silence came back in the darkness, and then I heard a voice crying for help. It was a horrible dream. After dawn, people in the street composed themselves and began to rescue those trapped under the crushed houses without considering their own lost property. My son started digging through the rubble with bare hands to help rescue a friend under a crushed apartment building. We accepted the reality...
...Quayle's sudden departure raises an obvious question: If Bill Clinton's job is so ripe for the plucking, why are so many prominent Republicans taking a pass? Money, mainly: the belief that it takes at least $20 million just to get into the game, since the first 24 primaries have been packed into five weeks in early 1996, starting with New Hampshire...
When I saw photos of the Kobe earthquake [Jan. 30], it looked like a war had occurred. But this sudden devastation was done by nature, not by human beings. There have been complaints that the response of the authorities was too slow because of its bureaucracy. They are deserved. But this earthquake was much more destructive than the government ever imagined. It is easy to criticize, but everyone has to learn from this horrendous experience. Yoshiko Kawada Hachioji, Japan It happened all of a sudden in predawn darkness. My house was almost destroyed. It was a nightmare. Like a thunderbolt...