BRIEFLY KILIMANJARO ICE FIELD MELTING.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden - The white ice atop Africa's Mount Kilimanjaro, enshrined in literature and beloved by tourists, could be disappearing, the victim of a process shrinking mountain glaciers everywhere. A survey completed last year found that 82 percent of the ice field that existed on Kilimanjaro in 1912 has melted, said Lonnie G. Thompson, an Ohio State University Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878. There are also campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. researcher. ``The ice will be gone by 2015 or so,'' predicted Thompson. - Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Fen-phen heart ills may reverse PHILADELPHIA - People who took the diet pill diet pill Drug slang A euphemism for an amphetamine Vox populi An agent that either ↓ appetite or ↑ basal metabolic rate–eg, amphetamines–by prescription and OTC diet aids–eg phenylpropanolamine, ephedrine, caffeine; in high doses, DPs combination fen-phen and a similar weight loss drug have new hope that any damage done to their heart valves Heart valves Valves that regulate blood flow into and out of the heart chambers. Mentioned in: Heart Failure might not worsen with time or could even improve, two new studies show. About 6 million people took the drugs before they were pulled off the market and research has suggested that up to a third of them might have suffered some heart valve damage. - Associated Press Oxnard worker gets burning jolt OXNARD - A 32-year-old man was shocked by 16,000 volts of power and suffered third-degree burns to more than a third of his body Monday when a piece of metal he was carrying apparently came in contact with a high-voltage power line, officials said. Romero Vasquez was reportedly working on the roof of a greenhouse in the 4100 block of Gonzalez Road, near Victoria Avenue, about 5:25 p.m. when the charge entered his arms and exited his feet, officials said. - Daily News |
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