Today's Globe: mercury in light bulbs, online prescription charges, pregnancy weight gain, Leroy Hoeck

It can seem a green contradiction: Compact fluorescent lights - those spiral energy-efficient bulbs used to fight global warming - contain mercury, a toxic metal. Now, as sales balloon, Maine legislators have voted overwhelmingly for first-in-the-nation legislation requiring manufacturers to reduce the mercury in all fluorescent lights and pay for recycling each bulb safely.

Torino Jennings, a Virginia doctor, never met or examined any of the thousands of people he issued muscle relaxant prescriptions to over the Internet, and he shortchanged the Internal Revenue Service by not reporting the total amount of income he made on the lucrative side job, according to federal authorities who issued an 11-count indictment against him.

New guidelines are setting how much weight women should gain during pregnancy - surprisingly little if they're already overweight.

Leroy Hoeck, a Washington pediatrician who helped solve the mystery of why an unusual number of premature infants were becoming blind after prolonged stays in the newborn nursery, died May 25 at a retirement home in Salisbury, Md. He was 97.