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Poor children are thinner than middle-class youngsters, although the poor are quickly narrowing the weight gap. Children and teen-agers also tend to be fatter in the winter than in the warmer months...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Obesity Rises in American Kids | 5/1/1987 | See Source »

...greenhouse effect. A general warming of the earth because of increasing amounts of carbon dioxide and other gases in the atmosphere might not only melt the polar ice caps and drastically alter weather patterns but cause more ferocious storms. Writing in Nature, M.I.T. Meteorologist Kerry Emanuel warned that a warmer climate could result in hurricanes packing up to 50% more destructive power. This could happen, he suggests, within 40 to 80 years, when some scientists think CO2 levels will have doubled and ocean temperatures will have increased by 2 degrees C to 3 degrees C. Because the energy of warm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Environment: More Violent Hurricanes? | 4/20/1987 | See Source »

What I did get was some of the finer music to be heard in Boston in awhile. Conductor Craig Smith prefers a richer, warmer Handel than my original-instrument tuned ears are accustomed to, but the quality was impeccable. Had Sellars and Smith done a little judicious paring on the score, my ears would have left totally elated instead of mildly exhausted...

Author: By Cyrus M. Sanai, | Title: On Opera: | 2/19/1987 | See Source »

...close, Hart seems warmer, more natural than he was in 1984. While he still ticks away with an intensity that is sometimes scary, he no longer seems to regard a smile and a chuckle as a sign of superficiality. He will occasionally mention his two children, his parents, his upbringing in the strict Church of the Nazarene, things he shied away from before. Hart realizes that this time around, he must be as adept in talking about the messenger as the message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Campaign Portrait,Gary Hart: Winning Hearts Through Minds | 2/16/1987 | See Source »

...never spoke to me again. My cold went away, the weather got warmer, and my lips were no longer chapped. I put the tube in some medicine chest somewhere. But I lost...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dry Lip Delirium | 1/30/1987 | See Source »

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