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...complex as its name): glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD). And, strangely, a deficiency of G-6-PD is not necessarily bad. It confers a definite survival value in areas where malaria is rife, and it has evolved into a common condition among the peoples of the Mediterranean basin and West African Negroes. But if these malaria survivors take to modern medicine, they often find their enzyme peculiarity a grave liability. Widely prescribed drugs may throw them into a devastating, life-threatening anemia...
...Massachusetts Ave. bridge, a noticeable rain began to fall on the wind-swept Basin, and Harvard moved out ahead by a comfortable two lengths M.I.T. was one length behind Princeton...
...this is, of course, only a start. Decades will be needed to make real headway against the Amazon's problems of poverty, illiteracy and disease. But a new outlook has come to the great river basin, and with it a new optimism. "You're going to see a lot of big changes around here," says American Bishop James Ryan, who is stationed in Santarém. "If they can do this much in two years, think what they...
Apparently the MDC would like to place similar lights along both banks of the river basin. If the MDC does succeed in lighting up the basin the obvious effect would be to deter crime--all sorts of crime--along the riverbank...
...regatta, held at the Charles River Basin in a 15 to 20 knot wind, was raced as a team event, in which only two teams are on the water at the same time. Each team has three boats, with the winning team determined by the lower sum of the teams' finishing positions. Harvard finished with the low total in each of its five races...