Word: antonios
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...Italy, is just now getting around to considering environmental legislation. Laws are severely overdue to control, for example, the unregulated building boom that threatens to turn much of Italy into a concrete wilderness. "There is not the slightest evidence of conscience or concern for the future," complains Conservationist Antonio Cederna. "Every protest suffocates against the mattress of political inertia." A spokesman for the powerful Farmers Union warns that unchecked water pollution has cut the production of fodder by 60% and increased mortality among cattle. Though industry is hardly the sole culprit in polluting Italy's waterways, he says...
Four-Quart Goal. The amount of work that muscles do can be measured by the amount of oxygen they consume. Soon after Cooper entered the Air Force in 1960, he was assigned to its School of Aerospace Medicine near San Antonio. Using thousands of airmen as his captive subjects, Cooper hit upon a twelve-minute run (now recommended only for men under 30) as the basic test. If the greatest distance a man can cover in those twelve minutes is less than a mile, he is in Cooper's very poor" fitness category. If he weighs...
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...coverings have also improved burn victims' prospects by preventing excessive loss of essential fluids, which lowers resistance. Doctors, who routinely take skin from animals and cadavers to cover serious burns, are now using the victim's own skin. Physicians at the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio use skin patches taken from unburned areas of the patient's body. Stretched so that they cover as much as nine times their original area, the dressings help prevent the formation of scar tissue and hasten the growth of new skin...
...Died. Antonio Cardinal Bacci, 85, the Vatican's leading Latin expert, who fought bitterly with Pope Paul VI over introduction of vernacular languages into the Mass; in Rome. When the Mass was revised in 1969, the conservative cardinal angrily and publicly labeled the new version near heretical. The outburst was not surprising for a churchman whose whole life was devoted to the unshakable conviction that Latin, far from being dead, was a "living and vital language for all cultivated persons." Over the years, Bacci brought out four editions of a Latin dictionary, including terms that did not exist...