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...statistics conclusively linking cigarettes to 25 percent of America's fatal house fires: In 1997, those blazes claimed roughly 900 victims, including 140 children. Of course, while these grisly numbers may have finally prompted a response from Philip Morris, they're small potatoes when compared with the annual death toll of people who stick cigarettes in their mouths, not just in their carpets. Changing that habit is going to take a much bigger step - one that the government and, certainly, the tobacco companies have shown no inclination...
...particularly high levels of discontent. The study of the troopers, all of whom have been in the armed forces for a decade or more, indicate that morale in the military is at a 20-year low. It seems that all those peacekeeping missions - and budget cuts - are taking a toll on both morale and military readiness. Soldiers are increasingly finding themselves separated from their families for long stretches and aren't happy with their compensation. The study also cites a growing case of corporate envy - soldiers are perceiving the armed forces as rigid compared to the modern corporate structure, which...
...recent upswing in emergency room visits indicates, this year's flu strain has hit early and often, taking a toll both on patients and exhausted doctors. According to CNN, a spokesman from California's Health and Human Services Department has tried to ease the pressure on beleaguered hospital staff by asking the public not to descend on the state's emergency rooms. After a stint in the Southwest, the flu is bearing down with particular force on the Northeastern states: Public health facilities across New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Virginia are dealing with a massive influx of patients suffering...
Last week that deluge came--and it wrought what may have been Latin America's deadliest natural disaster of the 1900s, a grim closing note to the continent's century. Fewer than 2,000 bodies had been recovered as of late last week, and a reliable death toll was impossible to calculate as soldiers and rescue workers continued digging near the northern coastal town of La Guaira, just across Mount Avila from Caracas. Still, officials said the toll would certainly surpass 5,000 and could even reach 30,000. "There are bodies in the sea, under mud, everywhere," said President...
...long been advised to institutionalize the boy, who has cerebral palsy, uses a wheelchair, needs a ventilator to breathe and suffers from seizures. But aided by a team of nurses, the couple provided the round-the-clock care Steven needed. Still, the strain of medical crises can take its toll. Says Susanmarie Trout, a friend of the Kelsos and herself the mother of a severely disabled teenager: "You're always walking a thin line between being able to cope and losing...