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...Center for Disease Control reports new evidence that Amanita phalloides may not be as uncommon in the New World as hitherto believed. For example, in October two people died of mushroom poisoning-a 37-year-old Martha's Vineyard resident who collected Amanita phalloides in his backyard and a 70-year-old Bronx man who picked the mushrooms in a New York park and ate them...
...only direct cash payments, which are becoming harder and harder to make, that Harvard should watch for, however. An extra steak for the family from the meat supplier, or some free two-by-fours for the backyard shed, if less serious in degree, still qualify as kickbacks...
...nonprofit National Association of Patients on Hemodialysis and Transplantation Inc. (N.A.P.H.T.), headed West with her 24-lb. suitcase kidney and 15 Ibs. of accessories (including container and dialyzing mix). The machine worked without a hitch. She dialyzed five times-in motel rooms and even on a friend's backyard patio...
Kennedy's movements on the night before he was nominated as the 1960 Democratic presidential candidate caught him climbing over a backyard fence near his suburban Los Angeles hideaway. Kennedy shouted that he was going off "to meet my father." Reporters have since learned that the stealthy visit was more likely to the nearby home of a former diplomat's wife he had known for some time...
...backyard fallout shelters and grade-school air-raid drills is mercifully bygone. But nuclear warfare is by no means implausible. Despite the existence of various accords, the race to accumulate atomic firepower proceeds...