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Perhaps the growing inability of couples to conceive is a message from the powers above that we have more than obeyed the biblical commandment to go forth and multiply. Maybe it is time to take a breather...
Herschbach said before the trip that the new and different skill might provide a welcome breather from the normal crew practice and perhaps exercise different muscle groups as well...
With the hard-fought opening round of the New England championships behind it and more tough competition looming in the next round, nine days from now at Brown, the Harvard water polo team decided to take a breather last night...
During this extended time-out, Harvard could let its own technical experts and others elsewhere reassess the plant's feasibility. Such a breather would probably produce a fresher idea of how to run the plant cleanly and efficiently...
...there lies the trouble. After guiding the lives of such outspoken, '60s-scarred characters as Joanie Caucus, B.D., Uncle Duke, and his own alter ego, Michael J. Doonesbury, through some 4,300 cartoon strips, Trudeau, 34, thinks it is time to refill the inkwell. "I need a breather," he confesses. "Investigative cartooning is a young man's game." Though the cartoonist will be off from the beginning of next year through the fall of 1984, he is not really abandoning the residents of the Walden Puddle Commune, just fiddling with them. "It's time to give them...