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THE NEWS in brief
LONDON
Health study predicts rise in smoking deaths
Deaths from cigarettes are likely to more than triple over the next quarter century to 20 every minute around the world, scientists warn in a new global survey.
The findings are in a book, "Mortality from Smoking in Developed Countries 1950-2000," to be published today by scientists at Britain's Imperial Cancer Research Fund, the World Health Organization and the American Cancer Society.
"Worldwide smoking is already killing 3 million people each year, and this number is increasing," said Richard Peto, a researcher at the Imperial Cancer Research Fund.
The new survey provides the most comprehensive analysis of the world's smokers, describing trends in smoking-related deaths since the 1950s and forecasting deaths into the next century. A previous study by the same authors two years ago covered the 1960s through the 1990s.
The new book covers 45 countries,15 more than the previous study. The additional nations are from eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
Sixty million deaths have been caused by smoking since the 1950s, the investigators estimate. They predict smoking will kill about 10 million people a year by 2020, the vast majority in developing countries where the habit continues to attract young women.
WASHINGTON
WASHINGTON Representatives give Clinton praise
Acting less than 12 hours after the first troops chopper into Haiti, the House called yesterday for the orderly withdrawal of all American forces "as soon as possible."
In a 1953-45 vote, lawmakers also offered a muted commendation for President Clinton and praised U.S. forces on the ground for their "professional excellence and dedicated patriotism."
The legislation underscored widespread opposition in the House to Clinton's earlier plans to invade Haiti, and lawmakers of both parties called for a more comprehensive airing of the administration's policy within several days.
Rep. David McCurdy, D-Okla., said that they were not supporting Clinton's policy on Haiti, or authorizing a long-term occupation.
WASHINGTON The world's big cities continue to grow
WASHINGTON
The bank issued the report as about 900 urban leaders gathered in Washington to find ways to bolster out-
The world's big cities are growing by a million people a week and will hold more than half the Earth's population within a decade, the World Bank said yesterday.
stripped health services before environmental risks worsen. Among the leaders was Henry Cisneros, U.S. secretary of housing and urban development.
Cisneros urged the conference to avoid unchecked growth, citing the consequences reaped in many U.S. cities: whole communities that are bereft of jobs, packed with poor people and generally unhealthy due to waste left behind by industry that left long ago.
"Empty buildings on contaminated lots. Toxic material buried in the ground, which no one will develop." Cisneros said. "The legacy of industrial pollution contributes to the poverty. These communities cannot sustain themselves."
WASHINGTON
Oregon's welfare mothers to get jobs
Oregon's welfare experiment, known as JOBS Plus, is the largest demonstration project in recent years involving wage subsidies for welfare recipients, experts say.
The Clinton administration gave Oregon final approval today to begin subsidizing private jobs for thousands of single mothers on welfare.
Waiivers of federal rules were required because Oregon will convert food stamps and Aid to Families with Dependent Children into cash and then use the money to subsidize temporary jobs for welfare recipients, most of them single mothers.
Participants will be paid no less than the Oregon minimum wage, $4.75 per hour, and will be eligible to receive the Earned Income Tax Credit, which pushes their hourly earnings above $6.
JOBS Plus is expected to place as many as 5,000 welfare recipients into real work jobs, most of them private and some public, throughout the next three years.
WASHINGTON
Technology lagging for virtual reality
People won't be exploring outer space or helping with heart surgery from the comfort of their homes unless the government aggressively pursues now-lagging technology to create virtual reality.
That's the conclusion of the National Research Council, which yesterday detailed a large gap between the expectations for virtual reality and the machinery that will make he futuristic concept possible.
Virtual reality is a concept in which people use computer programs and imaging hardware to experience a different place as if they were there.
People are already using some aspects of virtual reality: Remote-controlled robots take scientists to the ocean floor. Rural doctors beam live pictures of patients to specialists for help in diagnosis and even surgery from hundreds of miles away.
The options are limitless, from exploring outer space cheaper to developing new manufacturing processes,yesterday's report said.
But scientists lack the technology to make such long-awaited innovation a reality anytime soon — unless the government starts a major program to push this stagnating field along, the NRC said.
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