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...Thus Kissinger was able to embark on his diplomatic adventure?a five-nation trip ostensibly related to the war in Viet Nam?and to fly into Peking from Pakistan without arousing suspicion, while pretending to be ill with a stomach ailment (see box, page 13). He arrived in Peking fully aware that Chou was more than willing to see Nixon. But just what the Kissinger-Chou talks produced that convinced both sides that they would benefit from a summit meeting remains one of the mysteries surrounding the affair. Uncertainty that matters would go smoothly was undoubtedly a reason...
Next to heart disease, cancer kills more Americans than any other ailment. Some 335,000 people, half of them under 55, will die of cancer this year in the U.S.; one out of every four Americans now living, some 52 million people, will contract the disease at some time during their lives. For many of those who do, the prognosis is poor. Doctors can often slow or even halt the progress of cancer by surgery, radiation and drugs; but, though researchers have uncovered many disparate clues (TIME, April 19), they do not yet understand the workings of most forms...
Like everything else a university is unique, at least to those whose careers are involved in it. But when a unique institution suffers an unfamiliar ailment, the prognosis is up for grabs. The question is not, what is a university, but what is a university like...
...from reproducing and thus reducing the scope of infection. So far, says Gordon, it has proved effective in tissue culture against the viruses that cause influenza and the herpes viruses responsible for shingles and chicken pox. But it still falls short of cure for man's most common ailment, for, as Gordon points out, "there is no such thing as the common cold." More than 20 different viruses are known to produce the upper-respiratory-tract infections that lead to fever and sniffles. Isoprinosine, though apparently effective against some more serious viruses, remains to be tested against those that...
When ships are run by computers that can plot the course, set the speed according to sea conditions, load and unload tanks, and even diagnose a sick sailor's ailment, the inevitable result is boredom. The scraping and painting that busied generations of seamen are no longer necessary. The Europoort, for example, is coated with 600 tons of nearly impervious paint that requires a cosmetic fix only once every two years. Seasickness, which used to keep novice seamen running for the rail, is only a memory. The huge beam of the VLCCs-close to 200 ft.-makes them extremely...