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...same surefire formula: make a hit from a myth. At superficial glance, Clash of the Titans would qualify as the cycle's first ripoff, and a pallid one at that. It proceeds at a pace that must seem stately to tots reared on TV cartoons and the current batch of Saturday matinee-type features. It rarely ascends into exhilaration or slumps into camp. The direction of some actors is pedestrian, if not oafish. But as a lavish vehicle for the talents of Effects Wizard Ray Harryhausen, Clash offers delights to the eye and spirit of every moviegoing adult...
Overcrowding has led to a batch of protest lawsuits by prisoners and prison-reform groups. Judges are increasingly sympathetic to the argument that the conditions add up to cruel and unusual punishment, prohibited by the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution. Nine entire state prison systems- are under court orders to clean up; in some cases judges have ruled that prisoners with little time remaining in their sentences or who pose minimal danger to the public must be released if more space is not provided. More than 4,000 inmates have been released early in Illinois, for example -nearly one-third...
Said Sir James: "I've been a grocer for most of my life. In the grocery business, if you send out a batch of poisonous food, you have to recall it. Poisoning the brain is the same as poisoning...
...know if any young men from the school had come to visit us to take a look at the Big H. Yes, in fact we had had as many as three at a time--our roommates were certainly doing their part. Well good, because from the looks of this batch of American history papers, a lot of folks would really need some inspiration to make the Ivy League, he noted with raised and perplexed eyebrows. Yes, we had just been remarking to ourselves what a beautiful place it was. No no, we had gone to public high school...
...reported on the recycling of a patient's blood that has been lost in the course of an operation [March 16]. Auto-transfusion is also used in another way. A patient undergoing elective surgery is asked to contribute blood two weeks before and another batch one week before the operation. This is done, of course, provided that the blood count is adequate. The two units of blood are then stored and are used, if needed, by the patient. Today we do approximately 80% of our elective surgery making use of autotransfusion...