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...needling. A monument to Murphy's Law, the great white Batmobile that will be piloted by Astronauts John Young and Robert Crippen is already two years behind its timetable and $3.6 billion over budget. Only a year ago workmen had diagnosed the ship's ailment as "smallpox," a reference to the holes left in its outer shell when heat-dissipating tiles became unglued. At one time or another, the entire project became unglued. Perhaps it was prophetic that the task force proposing the space shuttle back in 1969 was headed by Vice President Spiro Agnew. In any case...
...Business School patients have required hospitalization, Kaden said, adding there is a trend away from hospitalization for this type of ailment. "Fewer people are being hospitalized because fewer are requesting it," he said. The attack rate at the Business School has been about 15 per cent...
...reason for the flurry of strange ailments is that diagnosis constantly becomes more refined. Dramatic advances in laboratory technology, like the use of radioactive substances, have helped doctors better understand disease processes. Also, physicians are more alert in reporting both established and unusual illnesses to their colleagues. Some apparently new diseases existed in the past, notes Epidemiologist Michael Gregg of the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, the nation's primary illness-monitoring station. But Gregg adds, "There may also be an essentially evolutionary environmental change. Something that is going to bring the host, the agent and the environment...
...believes learning those positions had helped him play the defensive line. He understands the mentality of the blockers he squares off against every Saturday, and his linebacking duty taught him the fine art of defensive pursuit--which he will probably exhibit this afternoon, despite a nagging knee ailment...
Meanwhile another disease, canine parvovirus, an unusually contagious and sometimes fatal ailment affecting dogs, has become a major concern of veterinarians and pet owners. While no overall figures are available, more than 2,000 deaths have been tabulated in Britain; and in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area alone, an estimated 1,500 dogs have died from the disease in the past three months...