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If you choose to follow any links to the complete text of articles listed below, you will be leaving the Strategian Web site. If you wish to return to this page from the Web page you are sent to, please use the Back option of your browser. David Wilkie, Gilda Morelli, Fiona Rotberg, and Ellen Shaw Wetter isn't Better: Global Warming and Food Security in the Congo Basin. (... based on information about the activities of farmers practicing slash and burn agriculture in the northeastern section of the Democratic Republic of Congo [Africa], the authors conclude that the 1 mm/d increase in rainfall predicted for much of the Congo Basin by the 2050s [as a result of climate change caused by global warming] may cause a basin wide increase in the frequency of heavy rains during the dry season, causing a reduction in the size of slash and burn farmers' fields, and potentially a substantial increase in the food insecurity of poor rural families across the region--from the abstract on the Global Environmental Change Web site) Global Environmental Change Volume 9, Number 4 (December 1999): 323-328. O. Baker Buoy Oh Buoy: Comprehensive El Niño Data. (... unprecedented measurements of the 1997–1998 El Niño warming and 1998 La Niña cooling of the Pacific Ocean around the equator has shown that, during El Niño, this region of the Pacific Ocean ceased producing carbon dioxide and became a net absorber of that greenhouse gas and that the amount of chlorophyll produced by plankton--the primary nutrients in the ocean food chain--decreased to the lowest levels ever recorded. During the following La Niña, the exact opposite happened resulting in the greatest growth or bloom of plankton yet recorded--from the text of the article on the Science News Web site) Science News Volume 156, Number 24 (December 11, 1999): 374. **The complete text of this article is currently available through the Web site of Science News** F. P. Chavez, P. G. Strutton, G. E. Friederich, R. A. Feely, G. C. Feldman, D. G. Foley, and M. J. McPhaden Biological and Chemical Response of the Equatorial Pacific Ocean to the 1997-98 El Niño. (... for the scientific information behind the article Buoy Oh Buoy: Comprehensive El Niño Data, please see this article; La Niña, carbon dioxide, chlorophyll, plankton) Science Volume 286, Number 5447 (December 10, 1999): 2126-2131. Brenda Eskenazi Caffeine -- Filtering the Facts. (... a review of the scientific literature regarding the physical and behavioral effects that the consumption of caffeine by mothers has on their fetuses and infants. The author concludes her review by cautioning that health care providers should continue to counsel women who are pregnant or breast-feeding to limit their caffeine intake--from the text of the article on The New England Journal of Medicine Web site; please see the bibliography of this article) The New England Journal of Medicine Volume 341, Number 22 (November 25, 1999): 1688-1689. **The complete text of this article is currently available through the Web site of The New England Journal of Medicine** David M. Morens Death of a President. (... a very interesting article that describes the last hours of George Washington, first President of the United States, and reviews and analyzes the medical treatment he received and the controversy over that medical care which began almost immediately and has persisted through the years, and the illness that probably resulted in his dealth on December 14, 1799) The New England Journal of Medicine Volume 341, Number 24 (December 9, 1999): 1845-1849. **The complete text of this article is currently available through the Web site of The New England Journal of Medicine** Zuo-Feng Zhang, Hal Morgenstern, Margaret R. Spitz, Donald P. Tashkin, Guo-Pei Yu, James R. Marshall, T. C. Hsu, and Stimson P. Schantz Marijuana Use and Increased Risk of Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck. (... in a study that compared 173 individuals with untreated cases of cancer of the head and neck and 176 individuals who were cancer-free between 1992 and 1994, the authors, after controlling for the effects of age, sex, race, education, alcohol consumption, pack-years of cigarette smoking, and passive smoking, suggest that marijuana use may increase the risk of head and neck cancer with a strong dose-response pattern--the latter especially strong for people 55 years of age and younger for frequency of marijuana use per day and years of marijuana use. The authors also suggest--less strongly--that marijuana use may interact with mutagen sensitivity and other risk factors [like cigarette smoking and alcohol use] to increase the risk of head and neck cancer--from the abstract on the Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention Web site) Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention Volume 8, Number 12 (December 1999): 1071-1078. 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