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...Quang Tri would be a heavy psychological blow that would reverberate throughout South Viet Nam. The presence of the civilian population would preclude the use of U.S. air and artillery, making the city's recapture a difficult and probably bloody operation of house-to-house fighting more akin to World War II than to the Viet Nam conflict. In a series of attacks last week, the Communists acted very much as if Quang Tri's isolation, if not its capture, was their goal...
...soon after the end of menstruation somehow prevented ovulation. A few years later, Pincus and Rock were working together to find a way of helping subfertile women ovulate, and thus conceive. They first had to regularize the woman's cycle, and they hit upon a synthetic progestin chemically akin to another female sex hormone, progesterone. The progestin, taken for 20 days in mid-menstrual cycle, suppressed ovulation by simulating pregnancy. Taken off the medicine, the women had a more normal cycle, with surer ovulation. After Pincus and Rock had produced a gratifying number of conceptions, a new idea struck...
...year old politician, in a manner akin to that of some of the more moderate members of the New Left, declared his impatience with the status quo of American politics calling for a "new and vital political force" to give the nation's disadvantaged some political leverage...
Borges does not perceive the world as other men do. An eye illness made him blind ten years ago; moreover, his "stories" are not fiction but something more akin to thought patterns. Long ago, he began storing his visions in what he calls the "unstable world of the mind, an indefatigable labyrinth, a chaos, a dream." And out of this darkness, from total recall, flash his scintillas of light...
...federal agencies and from five different sets of standards. If he addresses his letter to the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, he gets only 30% of the cost of the project. But if he mails it to the Department of Housing and Urban Development, he may hit something akin to the jackpot-a full...