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Hypoglycemia may be chronic and may thus explain why some authors and philosophers have had consistently pessimistic outlooks...
Continental Defense. In Mexico City, chronic church-robbers Ernesto Ruiz, Enrique Diaz and Salvador Monroy assured police that they always knelt before looting a chapel, added that they feared no heavenly wrath because: "God is too occupied with European affairs to pay any attention...
Monsoons in Calcutta. The steering gear broke down and had to be replaced. The sun beating through the window of the jeep turned it into a galloping greenhouse. "I got her livable," says Carlin, "at the cost of chronic bronchitis. A port with an air scoop played a jet of air into my left...
...attorney general's ruling. Missouri, however, is not alone in its neglect of convalescent homes. To find out what sort of people are in such homes, what they pay and what kind of care they get, the U.S. Public Health Service collaborated with the Commission on Chronic Illness in a detailed study in 13 representative states. Results: ¶ More than 80% of Connecticut's homes have registered nurses on their staffs; in several states only 40% to 50% of the homes have R.N.s, while in Wyoming and Oklahoma "the home with a registered nurse is practically nonexistent...
Hard hit by the rising prices of raw materials and production costs, Japan is fighting a losing battle to close its chronic $42 million monthly gap in trade with the dollar area. Japan's total exports last year amounted to only 57% of the 1934-36 average, while imports rose to 80%, according to the government's Economic Planning Board. Japanese businessmen call themselves the "orphans of Asia"; they have spent ten years trying to cultivate new markets and dependable sources of raw materials in South and Central America, Southeast Asia and the Middle East. But, argued Ishibashi...