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Michael H. Criqui
University of California, San Diego
Department of Medicine
Mail Code 0607
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92099

Beatrice A. Golomb
University of California, San Diego
Department of Medicine
Mail Code 0607
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92099

Charles T. Valmadrid
University of Wisconsin-Madison Medical School
Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences
610 North Walnut Street
WARF 460
Madison, WI 63705-2397

From Science News, Vol. 156, No. 4, July 24, 1999, p. 52. Copyright © 1999, Science Service.