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Chevron to Postpone Removal of PlatformsCOUNTYWIDE FOCUS

april 04 (WEISS, 1995), 1995 |KENNETH R. WEISS

Failing to obtain a necessary permit, Chevron announced it will postpone the removal of four offshore oil platforms in the Santa Barbara Channel until next summer.

The oil company had not received a permit from the Santa Barbara County Air Pollution ControlDistrict required before beginning to cut down platforms Heidi, Hope, Hazel and Hilda off thecoast of Carpinteria this summer, project manager Dana Billings said.

Chemistry Student in Murder-Suicide, PoliceSayA 29-year-old chemistry student committed suicide by standing in front of an oncoming trainshortly after he strangled a female University of Illinois employee, police said Friday.

Police released details of the Oct. 31 murder-suicide after determining that James Radic,described as a loner with difficulties relating to women, was the killer of computer scienceworker Maria Grat

National Alcohol Awareness Month -- April1995April is National Alcohol Awareness Month. Maternal alcohol consumption during pregnancy isone of the most common preventable causes of birth defects and childhood disabilities. Varyinglevels of fetal alcohol exposure result in a spectrum of alcohol-related disabling conditions,including fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS) (with its characteristic physical features) and cognitiveand behavioral problems. National health objectives for the year 2000 include reducing theincidence of FAS to no more than 0.12 cases per 1000 live births (i.e., 1.2 cases per 10,000 live

births) and increasing abstinence from alcohol drinking by pregnant women by 20% (objectives

14.4 and 14.10) (1). Although adverse health effects associated with fetal exposure to alcohol are preventable, effective intervention strategies are still being developed. An important step towarddeveloping these strategies is improving the understanding of the occurrence and epidemiologyof FAS, including determination of population subgroups at increased risk for this condition.This issue of MMWR includes four articles related to maternal alcohol consumption during

pregnancy and its effects on exposed offspring.

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T his Month in Physics History April 1995: Discovery of the top quark at Fermilab

The Standard Model of particle physics holds that all matter is made from a small alphabet of elementary particles consisting of six quarks and six leptons. The heaviest of these, the top (or t)quark, is unstable and can only be detected when it is created artificially, for example in thecollisions between the high-energy proton and antiproton beams at Fermilab in Batavia, Illinois.Physicists have been convinced that the top quark must exist since 1977, when its partner, the

bottom (or b) quark, was discovered. Little did they know it would be nearly two decades beforethe top was finally found.

WEISS, K. R. (1995). Chevron to postpone removal of platforms. los angeles: COUNTYWIDE FOCUS.