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...weeks after his right leg was amputated above the knee to prevent the spread of a rare form of can cer, Teddy Kennedy Jr., 12, appears to be making an excellent recovery. Having adjusted to his new leg well enough to walk a few steps without crutches, Teddy confidently joined a pre-Christmas family sledding party in Virginia. Then he arrived at Palm Beach for a vacation with his family at the home of his grandmother, Mrs. Rose Kennedy. He rejected a waiting wheelchair at the airport and made his own way to the car. The next day, Teddy, wearing...
...there a real prospect that the world will run out of its standard fuel resources? Yes, eventually. How much time remains? Nobody can tell for cer tain, but many specialists cite the figures of M. King Hubbert, a geophysicist with the U.S. Geological Survey, who predicts that 90% of all oil and gas will be gone by 2035, about 90% of all coal by 2300. Before that doomsday comes, most experts believe, technology can provide alternate sources of power, notably through nuclear energy. In the meantime, however, fuel supplies are al ready becoming scarcer, harder to dig out and thus...
...virtuoso in every medium from clay to rubber, from stainless steel to Plexiglas, and his involvement with craft sometimes gives his images a cer tain preciousness. His newest works, The Souls, are slabs of aspic-like silicon gel, none of them bigger than a sheet of typing paper, in which objects are set and, as it were, embalmed. The gel has the disconcerting resiliency of flesh-it feels vulnerable and intimate-while its contents, which may be any thing from a cut-out decal of a rain bow trout to a diminutive plastic air plane, exhale a delicate poetry...
...Japan's ear liest Western advocates, Lafcadio Hearn, the main thing was "the viewless pressure of numberless past generations" at work in the country. These days the focus is on the future generations of Japan. No one knows what pressures they will feel, but one thing is cer tain: Japan will, as Sato says, carry weight...
Engel's work in "autonomic shaping" has enabled him to alter heart rates and rhythms to alleviate irregular heart beats and high blood pressure in cer tain patients. Other researchers are proving-contrary to expert opinion of the past-that man can learn to control even such functions as sweating, blood pressure, intestinal contractions and brain waves...