All-Pervasive Environment Drives Smoking Rise Among Girls
The American Cancer Society reports teenage girls 13 to 17 smoking rose from 22 to 27 percent, about 500,000 more, blaming an all pervasive smoking environment. A Yankelovich study finds 40 percent of teenage girl smokers consume a pack daily, with heavy smoking up sharply. Among women 18 to 35, smoking prevalence is 36 percent, up from 34, while heavy smoking climbs from 9 to 25 percent.
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New York
American Cancer Society
ACS
Yankelovich, Skelly and White
Yankelovich
U.S
Quake Information Service logs tremors at earth's core
Golden Colorado AP report details how the National Earthquake Information Service monitors major quakes. Spokesman Waverly Person says 16 to 18 major quakes occur yearly with one great quake, noting the Guatemala 7.9 tremor killed thousands and left many homeless. The center, linked to the Geological Survey, rings alarms worldwide for quakes of 4+ or 5.5+ on the Richter scale.
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Golden
Colo
National Earthquake Information Service
Guatemala
Colorado Rockies
U.S. Department of Interior
Geological Survey
Colorado School of Mines
Rege
United States
Newport
Wash
Tucson
Ariz
Ohio Supreme Court upholds gas curtailment power
The Ohio Supreme Court rules 6-1 that the Public Utilities Commission of Ohio may curtail natural gas supplies in an emergency. The ruling sustains East Ohio Gas Co. plan approved by PUCO despite a noted technical defect and rejects challenges from the Ohio Manufacturers' Association and the Ohio Bakers Association. Justice Corrigan dissents without explanation.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ohio Supreme Court
Public Utilities Commission of Ohio
East Ohio Gas Co
PUCO
Commission
Ohio
Sociation
Ohio Bakers Association
J.J.P. Corrigan
Supreme Court
East Ohio
OMA
OBA
Ohio Energy Emergency Commission
Mountain Travelers Rescued After Avalanches on Red Mountain Pass
Rescuers reached about 30 persons stranded on Red Mountain Pass near Silverton after avalanches buried a mining company bus, a Continental Trailways bus with 12 passengers, two pickup trucks, a four wheel drive, and a small car. The snowslides occurred Monday night along US 550.
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Silverton
Colo
Red Mountain Pass
Here
Continental Trailways
Middletown Weather Forecast Sees Clearing Skies Tonight
Clearing skies are expected in the Middletown area with overnight lows near 30s and highs in the 50s on Thursday. Yesterday reached a high of 63 and a low of 36, with an extended outlook showing a chance of snow flurries Friday and rain on Saturday and Sunday.
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Middletown
MPLA Seizes Benguela and Lobito Ports in Angola
The MPLA announced its unopposed occupation of Benguela and Lobito, coastal termini of the Benguela Railroad, as UNITA’s rout in southern Angola is described as virtually complete. Reports from Luanda and Johannesburg indicate approaching clashes with the South African army.
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Associated Press
MPLA
Angola
Jane Bergerol
London Financial Times
Luanda
Ment
Benguela
Lobito
UNITA
National Union
Nicholas Ashford
The
Times of London
Johannesburg
Panel limits OTC cough and cold remedies for safer use
A seven member advisory panel told the FDA that many nonprescription cough and cold drugs use too many active ingredients. They favor labeling reform and restrict products to no more than three pharmacological groups. The panel also recommended banning vitamin C claims and allowing six antihistamines and one decongestant on nonprescription shelves.
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Washington
Food and Drug Administration
FDA
Alexander M. Schmidt
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Colorado Center
Earth
Island of
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Denver
Ann Landers Bridge Co
Heloise
Lynn Campbell
Boswell
Okla
Billy James Hargis
Time Magazine
Hargis
Crusade For Christian Morality
American Christian College
Tulsa
Time
David Noebel
Noebel
Hargis Noebel
Ozarks
David
Jonathan
Hargis An
Craig Blackstock
Billy Hargis
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