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...world's least attractive creatures: a sharp-beaked "kissing bug" (Rhodinus prolixits], a tiny (½ in. long) brown resident of South America that lives on blood and sometimes sucks at human lips. Dr. Baldwin, a radiation specialist at Atomic Energy of Canada's remote biology laboratory in Chalk River, Ont., went to work on the bug because it signals visually when its cells are dividing: they divide only when Rhodinus needs to grow a new coat. This process occurs after the bug is newly gorged with blood, and then all the cells under its body wall divide simultaneously...
...rate of unemployment, seasonally adjusted, rose from 6% of the labor force, where it has stood so far this year, to 6.1%. Ordinarily, so small a change would be discounted; it could be a statistical error. What worried economists was the failure of employment to chalk up the seasonal rise that usually comes in February. Nonetheless, Administration economists expect the employment and unemployment picture to improve slowly, simply because in almost every other area the U.S. economy is showing signs of increased vigor. Items...
Over the weekend, students began fashioning black felt armbands with "14-Mars" inscribed on them in chalk, and plans were supposedly laid for a mass surrender to the New Haven police and for a march on a local precinct station. Another student plot hoped to have the entire undergraduate body flush all the toilets at Yale simultaneously in hopes of flooding New Haven streets. However, the Deans probation decree appears to have silenced any such mass action
Because of a breakdown in Trinity's electrical scoring device, touches had to be determined by chalk marks, a long and laborious process. In an attempt to expedite proceedings, three touches instead of the usual five were worth a point...
Idle Fear. Her travels have taken Siobhan from Broadway (The Chalk Garden, The Rope Dancers ) and off-Broadway (Saint Joan) shows to London movies