Word: children
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saigon area, a man who received his demolition training in North Viet Nam. After "intensive questioning," the V.C. admitted that they were under orders to create havoc in the pre-election period by setting off mines at points carefully chosen to injure the maximum number of women and children...
...journal Science that vitamin D is no ordinary vitamin. Unlike the others, it occurs in virtually no natural foods.* It is synthesized in the skin under the influence of ultraviolet rays. The body needs vitamin D if it is to process calcium from food to make bone. Consequently, children need proportionately more vitamin D for their growing bones, and a D deficiency causes rickets...
...excess. There are other bits of confirmatory evidence: the only relatively dark-skinned people in high latitudes are the Eskimos, who get all the vitamin D they need from fish-liver oils. Until the 1930s, when irradiation of milk to enrich its vitamin D content became prevalent, U.S. Negro children suffered far more commonly from rickets than white children...
...Nieuwe Katechismus is the work of some 150 experts and is aimed at interpreting church doctrine in the spirit of the recent Vatican Council. Written for adults, it breaks with the simplistic rote question-and-answer catechisms traditionally used for children. Instead, it is a sophisticated, often undogmatic book that frankly discusses a wide range of subjects, from homosexuals ("often hardworking people of high integrity") to Calvin ("a man possessed by the absolute majesty of God"), and even refers to "the passion for justice of the Marxists...
Sailors forget their wives, their mistresses, their children and, of course, their bank accounts for the feel of the wind and the sound of the starting gun. Everybody remembers J. P. Mor gan's haughty retort not to ask the cost of maintaining a yacht. But everybody is doing his best to make a liar out of him. The price of a relatively modest 19-ft. Lightning racer is $3,200 (more than 10,600 sold to date), and that's just the beginning. "A boat," as one Miami sailor puts it, "is a hole in the water...