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...effective vaccine against rabies, but the dangerous viral disease still takes hundreds of lives round the world every year. The problem is especially serious in developing countries, where inoculations are not always quickly available and infected animals, who transmit the disease through bites, often run rampant. Yet even when bitten people are vaccinated in time, the treatment can be almost as bad as the disease. Typically, it involves a series of 14 or more shots (usually in the abdomen) that often cause painful allergic swelling and occasionally paralysis or death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Taking the Bite Out of Rabies | 12/27/1976 | See Source »

...smile sweet as cherubs at those we've bitten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Seven Lords A-Leaping... and Other Seasonal Matters | 12/17/1976 | See Source »

...representing two conflicting groups, each rationalizing in the Weberian sense," I scratched on a yellow legal pad, my nail-bitten fingers grapsping the last of eight sharpened Ticonderoga No. 2 pencils. "Jesus," I said to myself, "how the hell did I get in such a prison...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: The Yale Game: Soc Sci 2 and Irish Whiskey | 11/13/1976 | See Source »

...need their oil more than they need our goods. Governor Carter's stand precludes negotiation or compromise, and exemplifies the rigidity that self-righteous morality can give to foreign (or domestic) matters. In his attempt to show strong moral leadership and support for Israel, Governor Carter has bitten the lands that fuel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Forum, Nov. 8, 1976 | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

Died. Candace Mossler Garrison, 56, the hard-bitten blonde who was acquitted with her nephew-boy friend in 1966 of murdering her husband, Millionaire Jacques Mossier; from a drug overdose; in Miami Beach. One of twelve children of a Georgia farmer, Candy married Mossier, 23 years her senior, in 1948. He was found stabbed to death in their Key Biscayne apartment in 1964. Candy and her 24-year-old lover, Melvin Lane Powers, were defended by Superlawyer Percy Foreman in a lurid, seven-week trial. They parted a few years later. She was subsequently married briefly to Barnett Garrison...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Nov. 8, 1976 | 11/8/1976 | See Source »

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