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Two new studies have provided discouraging suggestions that oral contraceptives may entail previously unrecognized (but small) risks to women's health. Panic is not called for, straight talking is.
The Nobel committees have awarded this year's physics prize to Professors W. A. Fowler (Caltech) and S. Chandrasekhar (Chicago) and the chemistry prize to Professor Henry Taube (Stanford).
