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...figures on who died of what has proved difficult. What good, for instance, is a death certificate written on the bark of a baobab tree along a branch of the upper Zambezi? So WHO decided that what it needed was something like the U.S. income-tax collector's 1040-A-a short form that nobody...
...Oregon nurse, 37, had corns on her toes since she was 15. Then she began taking large doses of vitamin A-a 100,000-unit capsule daily at bedtime. In three weeks most of her corns disappeared; in two months they were all gone. This surprising cure was reported by Dr. John Vidalin Straumfjord of Astoria, Ore. in Northwest Medicine. Dr. Straumfjord's specialty is studying the importance of vitamin A, which abounds in the livers of Pacific Coast sharks, cod livers, and carrots...
...Christian girls cower, but the Jewess, Rachel, cries : "I! I! I'm not a woman, I'm only a-a - slut! That's good enough for a Prussian!" Forthwith she stabs "Mademoiselle Fifi" in the throat, killing him, then escapes by jumping out the window, finally hides for months in a church tower, fed and cared for by the priest and the sacristan...