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While information remains scarce, and at times contradictory, some things are becoming known. Anxious families crowd around lists of survivors posted in hospitals, and those who don't see their relatives on those lists search the morgues. Some have still not located their family members after several days of looking. Sarah Chayes has a report from Paris on the heat wave across the Atlantic. French winegrowers are worried about grapes shriveling on the vine. With the temperature in Paris hitting one hundred, city officials declared an air pollution alert, issuing health warnings to children and old people and lowering speed limits. Now that she has her own house, she does the same things but can't recapture a certain quality. It's for kids who have a rare skin disease called Xeroderma Pigmentosum or XP. The disease makes any exposure to sunlight or ultraviolet rays deadly. So these kids fish, ride horses, play games all night and sleep during the day. Dan and Caren Maher of Poughkeepsie started the camp three summers ago. They say they wanted Katie to have a chance to go outside and play with other children for a few weeks of her life. There is no cure yet for XP, which destroys the body's ability to restore skin cells. You can find out more by visiting the 14 Xeroderma Pigmentosum Society Web site. GumTech makes what Kehoe calls "functional chewing gums," which are fortified with a variety herbs, vitamins and minerals that, according to Kehoe, can increase energy levels and stamina in the chewer. While Kehoe believes that functional gum can yield positive results, he explains that GumTech's products are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration and are dietary supplements, not drugs. The pair opened fire on a group of fellow students and a teacher in local middle school last March, killing five people. They are charged with killing an 11-year-old girl to steal her bicycle. Garbarino says seven and eight-year-olds have a very primitive understanding of death, and that many children have been desensitized to violence. In part one of two stories, Steve Young of Vermont Public Radio profiles Abby, a Vermont college student on welfare. The settlement would protect workers from layoffs or forced transfers during the two-year deal -- and turn about 3,000 temporary employees into permanent jobholders. Union officials say the deal will give workers access to new jobs in telecommunications -- such as Internet services and data networking. Riders complain that buses are too crowded, too infrequent and don't cover enough of the city. But NPR's Dan Charles reports that courts have now decided that mathematical formulae can be patented. These aren't the chemical formulae for things like Coca-Cola, but mathematical calculations most often used to create software. The recent court judgments have lawyers and mathematicians facing off over what is patentable and what belongs the everyone. A new 2-CD set (with three new songs, a VH-1 performance and greatest hits) hits the stores today. And Boy George defends his era as being more adventurous than the 1990's. Some stories do not link to audio files because of Internet rights issues. Box 4370 Upper Marlboro, Maryland 20775-4370 Please include program name, date and subject. Copyright National Public Radio, 1998, all rights reserved.
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