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...atmosphere of the city fluctuates between acute tension and chronic fear. In the tea houses all heads lift from sipped cups when anyone enters. A slammed door, an auto exhaust backfiring, the passing of a military vehicle, a ringing phone, the clumsy crash of trays or pots in a café -any of these sounds turns eyes nervously, stops conversations. People do not loiter in the streets, except at bus stops and around food stores...
...years since, Merigan and his Stanford team have successfully used IF to treat shingles and chicken pox in cancer patients. In other studies, IF has prevented the recurrence of CMV, a chronic viral disease that sometimes endangers newborn babies and kidney- transplant patients. Israeli doctors have also used IF eyedrops to combat a contagious and incapacitating viral eye infection commonly known as "pink eye." Researchers are now trying a combination of IF and the antiviral drug ara-A in patients with chronic hepatitis B infections. Interferon investigators have high hopes that the drug will be equally active against other viral...
Sergeant A.M. Valnikov (Robert Foxworth) is of Russian descent, and so, perhaps, comes by his chronic melancholia naturally. A recent divorce and - it is gradually revealed - his investigations of a particularly ugly series of child murders have done nothing to lighten his mood. He is in fact drinking his way into early retirement. Sergeant Natalie Zimmerman (Paula Prentiss) is a brisk, no-nonsense sort of woman, very proud of the fact that she has finally got her life perfectly organized. She keeps protesting her assignment as Valnikov's partner, though everyone (except perhaps Valnikov) under stands that...
Americans have contemplated this annus mirabilis of weird weather with a special fascination. But even when the barometer is less mercurial, they pay almost abnormal attention to the weather's moods and the people who predict them. Americans have become chronic weather junkies. They monitor it the way a hypochondriac listens to his own breathing and heart-beat in the middle of the night. Some people, of course, have an urgent need to know: boatmen, farmers, construction workers, streetwalkers. But others whose daily exposure to the hazards of the open air is limited to three minutes between bus stop...
...those early years, young Peter became a chronic watcher in the shadows backstage. He had slight choice in the matter. Given the rootless life of strolling players, there was little opportunity to develop friendships of a lasting sort. "I never had any real set mates," he told Biographer Peter Evans (Peter Sellers: The Mask Behind the Mask). "I'd make friends in one town for one week and then we'd move on. You'd hope, if you played that town again, maybe a year later, that the friend you'd made would still be around; perhaps...