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that intrigue him and then designs
experiments to test his ideas.
In other work, he has shown how
people believe babies' features seem to
resemble their fathers' features around
age 1 in particular.
He also has argued that different
professional sports have evolved to a
particular number of games in a sea-
son to account for the extent to
which skill or chance influence the
outcome of a game. The more skill
involved, he says, the fewer games
needed to identify a champion.

David Graham writes for Copley
News Service.

Smoke
Treatment

San Diego (CNS) — Nitric oxide, a
gas commonly found in smog and
cigarette smoke, may have medici-
nal benefits, say researchers at the
University of Florida.
Writing in a recent issue of the
(beginital) Journal of Pediatrics,
(endital) the researchers say admin-
istering the gas to premature infants
opens blood vessels in their under-
developed lungs and causes blood
oxygen levels to rise.
"Because this drug is inhaled, it
passes into healthy lung regions and
bypasses those that have blocked air
passages. Blood is thereby rerouted
toward health regions," says cardiol-
ogist Jeffrey W. Skimming.
The gas has been deemed an
experimental drug by the Food and
Drug Administration. More than
400 patients at UF's College of
Medicine have been treated with
nitric oxide since 1993, and it's
been effective on premature babies
to adults with lung diseases.
"Unlike antibiotics or other
drugs that directly attack specific
diseases, nitric oxide treatment may
simply help keep the most critically
ill patients alive so that both devel-
opment and healing can occur natu-
rally," says Skimming.
But don't think preemies and criti-
cally ill people are lighting up Camels.
Infants in the OF study received 5 or
20 parts per million of nitric oxide.
That's well below the Occupational
Safety and Health Administration's
safe-exposure limit of 25 parts per
million, and far less than the 1,000
parts per million a smoker inhales
with every cigarette.

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