Show Standard-Examine- World r Fnday April 19 2002 9A - 5:15 pm SWITZ Locarnoj V ' j Lake Como Lugaffo K? & ') Xfaquioie ITALY 75 into Pirelli bldg to mi Milan X Linate Airport Local time 10km - Couples are more likely to have a girl than a boy if either of the partners smoked heavily while they were trying to conceive new research suggests Some scientists consider the ratio of male to female births to be an indicator of a population’s health because male sperm and embryos are more fragile than their female counterparts The study published this LONDON Como 5:50 pm- Pilot sends distress call 1 5:54 pm Plane crashes cause females are better at The Associated Press V Lake c for Milan s Linate airport Lake C Study: Heavy smokers more likely to have girls J Plane takes 6ft week in The Lancet medical ANTONIO CALANNIThe Associated Press A gaping hole is seen the middle of the Pirelli skyscraper which Milan Italy Thursday A plane crashed into it in houses government offices in Plane hits Milan building explosion” said Raffaele who was tending bar MILAN Italy - A small at the nearby Atlantic Hotel plane in flames and sending “I certainly thought of the a distress signal smashed in- September attacks in the to the tallest skyscraper in It- United States” he said “It realy’s financial capital Thursally looked like the same day killing at least three thing” people and injuring 60 The pilot - who was on a The crash initially raised flight from Locarfears of a Sept terror no Switzerland to Milan - isattack but the Italian govern- sued a distress and resignal ment said it was probably an with the problems ported accident plane’s landing gear moments The aircraft punched before plowing into the through the 25th floor of the building at 5:50 pm slim Pirelli building gutting Milan police officer Celerissi-mtwo floors and starting a fire De Simone said that sent smoke pouring out The pilot reported “a little into the clear blue sky over problem with the landing downtown Milan and the control tower workers gear” Emergency instructed him to move to the helped bloodied men in busi- west of the airport until it ness suits while firefighters was fixed a statement from worked to put out the blaze the association said It said “I heard something like the that the pilot didn’t issue a engine of a plane dying out distress signal as officials and then I heard a terrible had previously reported The Tac-cogn- a’ The Associated Press te 11-ty- 30-sto- ry o control tower contacted the pilot again after seeing he was drifting to the north in the wrong direction The pilot said he was fixing the problem and the tower instructed him to move back into position to land But the pilot again didn’t get into the right position it said The control tower then lost contact SOURCES Associated Press ESRI AP journal is the first to propose that smoking may play a role Normally boys have a slight edge over girls with almost 52 percent of all babies born worldwide being male The balance tends to even out later in life be survival However the comparative number of males has been declmmg in several industrialized countries over the past few decades and researchers suspect toxic substances may be partly to blame Dr Henrik Moller who has conducted extensive research on sex ratios but was not connected with the latest study said the findings “fit with what is already known about certain exposures certainly in the male” Moller a professor at Imperial College in London said there is no way to tell whether the father’s smoking or the mother’s smoking has more of an influence on the sex of the baby nor how smoking exerts its power about 200 yards away from the skyscraper was evacuated for security reasons and no trains were running from there After-hour- s trading was suspended on the Milan stock market which was already closed for the day The US Consulate in Mie lan about a from the scene evacuated the few One witness Fabio Suruk staffers still in the office as a said the plane was on fire besafety precaution fore it crashed President Bush was quickThe plane did not try to notified of the collision ly change course “but just went press secretary Ari Fleischer a said Sunik straight in” said sports journalist “Then I saw The FBI was assisting in rubble falling from the buildthe investigation ing” Some 1300 people work in In Washington a senior the building which houses lo- Bush administration official cal government offices but it speaking on condition of anowas not known how many nymity said Italian officials were still there when the had told the United States crash took place - not long af- that a mechanical problem ter working hours ended not related to terrorism Milan’s main train station caused the crash half-mil- JOIN US c ines I Independent Living YOU’LL LOVE IT! 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