Word: capes
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...medical problems of starvation. The paradox makes its own kind of sense. U.S. doctors want to know the most efficient forms of certain food substances, especially proteins. And since starvation at home is too rare for large-scale study, the project has been set up in South Africa, where Cape Town provides an ideal laboratory. There, a modern medical school is located near a population with such abysmally low living standards that researchers see many cases of severe malnutrition...
...From Cape Town to Oslo, the National Institutes of Health are spending $15 million a year on a whole series of overseas studies. "We're not in the foreign aid business," explains Dr. Martin M. Cummings. who heads the Institutes' Office of International Research. "We're spending money where we can get a concentration of excellence in skills, talents and resources." In most cases, a U.S. grant helps a foreign institution to do better work and improve local health standards. But by mandate of Congress, such considerations are secondary: the primary aim of financing foreign medical research...
...Cape Cod Lighter, O'Hara...
...sale" ad ran in the Saturday Review: "Robert Frost house. Shaftsbury, Vermont. 150-year-old Cape Cod. Three fireplaces. 150 acres. Studio. Barn. Small pond. Spectacular view. $27,500." Poet Frost, 88, suffering from blood clots and now in a Boston hospital, has not lived in the house since 1939, after his wife died and he turned it over to his daughter-in-law and grandson, Naval Architect William Prescot Frost. Since moving to Oregon, they decided to sell the house where the venerable poet had lived for nearly 20 years. The buyer: a doctor -a "longtime Frost fan"-from...
...work; but when one is present, it is likely to be derived from around his house in Provincetown. Mass. In the show of Knaths's work that was on display last week at Manhattan's Paul Rosenberg & Co., the sailboats and fishermen, wharves and beaches of Cape Cod were all there, transformed into a subtle geometry that partially conceals their identity but thereby achieves what Knaths is after-"mood and wonder." Knaths never goes in for dramatics. His colors are muted, do not dazzle. He can catch the orange glory of dawn, but he is not interested...