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...stems from plain old hysteria--fanned by news reports and plaintiffs' lawyers--is a hotly contested issue. Mold, after all, is everywhere, from the tasty Roquefort cheese in your salad dressing to the nasty black stuff clinging to the grout in your bathroom. Doctors know that certain strains can trigger allergic reactions, asthma and other respiratory ailments. They have discovered that toxins produced by aspergillus molds can cause cancer. But proving that a mold in this house caused this person's nosebleeds or mental confusion is a notoriously difficult task...
TIME.com: Secretary of State Colin Powell managed to get the Israelis and Palestinians to agree to a timetable - a week of no violence, which will trigger a six-week "cooling-off" period, followed by "confidence-building" measures and more talks. That seems to be open to plenty of sabotage along...
GUNPLAY A couple of boys find a gun. What do they do next? According to a study in Pediatrics, 75% will pick it up, and nearly half will pull the trigger. Sixty-four boys, ages eight to 12, took part in the experiment, in which an unloaded .380-cal. handgun was hidden in a drawer in a medical examining room. Left alone in the room, the boys explored. Half of those who handled the gun were correct in thinking it was real...
...humor and drinking a Coca-Cola, he was ready for some gossip. He was involved in chitchat about cholesterol and gout when Dipendra returned, dressed in commando fatigues and carrying two assault rifles, and strode toward him. "Dipendra just looked at his father?he said nothing?and squeezed the trigger once," says Ravi Shumshere Rana, 77, Dipendra's uncle, who was standing next to the King when he was shot. "The King stood there for a few seconds after the firing and then slowly he sat down on the ground." Blood appeared on the King's right shoulder and began...
...Proof of how bad things have become was supplied by a proposal from the Macedonian Academy of Science and Arts that Macedonia and Albania swap villages, an implausible scheme that would redraw the borders and could trigger a new round of ethnic cleansing. That idea too was dismissed, thankfully. Macedonian government forces, meanwhile, continued a two-week-old offensive along the Kosovo border that has killed several civilians and forced thousands to flee. The government accuses rebels of keeping 10,000 civilians coralled as human shields. "We can hardly wait to get orders to move on and finish...