31.   According to controversial new findings, smoking may be the cause, not the consequence of clinical depression, panic attacks and panic disorders.

32.   Actually this is not a new finding.

33.   After a number of studies suggesting that coffee increases the risk of heart attacks, the new findings are the first to suggest it has long-term beneficial effects.

34.   But a more important scientific point is that major new findings seldom come from experiments on a single human.

35.   But anticipating the political impact of the new findings, Clinton warned that reforms should still be enacted promptly.

36.   Bunn, of Harvard, cautioned that properly evaluating potential treatments based on the new findings, such as modified hemoglobin solutions, could take several years.

37.   But Dr. McCormick said the new findings have some positive elements.

38.   But he and others point out that the new findings are a long way from decisively showing that a lack of vitamin D during pregnancy helps trigger schizophrenia.

39.   But in one disturbing new finding, scientists are finding low reproduction rates along one area on the Columbia River in Oregon.

40.   But he agreed that the new findings showed that the rule is by no means an invariable law of nature.