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Pressure for economic improvement is mounting; left-wing Cairo university students demonstrated again last week for better conditions, and some workers joined them. Sadat has ordered extra supplies of wheat, meat and cotton cloth to be distributed, but even that is not enough. "The real problem," one leftist intellectual Cairene told TIME Correspondent Wilton Wynn last week, "is the deterioration of the economy. These troubles are not plots masterminded by some Marxist. The real generalissimo is hunger." That is one generalissimo who could be defeated by a Middle East peace-but who would surely win if the area returned...
...look, whoever is out there reading this, do you seriously think you're going to have any time at all this coming week to go looking at pieces of cloth with colored oil splotched on them? Why don't you give up while you're ahead and go back to your Plato. I may be spending a lot of time in the Egyptology library at the MFA because all the books for my paper on Ashurbanipal are mysteriously missing from Widener, but I would hope the rest of you have better things to do with your time...
...idea seems to be the same as that promulgated by hundreds of American corporations: No matter how bad the product, advertise the hell out of it and the public will buy. It uses all the common marketing tactics--credible speaker (would a man of the cloth lie to you?); me-tooism ("I didn't like the war, you didn't like the war, so I've got to be right"); and inflated description ("It's an honest program that protects your rights and integrity..."). And like most other advertising, it underestimates the ability of the public to critically evaluate what...
...device used to measure blood pressure is called a sphygmomanometer (from the Greek, meaning pulse measurement); it measures the air pressure needed to raise a column of mercury. To use it, the doctor pumps air into a cloth cuff wound tightly round the patient's arm. As the cuff expands, the column of mercury rises in response to the increasing air pressure. That pressure also causes the cuff to press against the brachial artery, stopping the flow of blood. The doctor, his stethoscope pressed against the patient's forearm, knows that the flow has ceased when...
...hours while the intruder delivered an unintelligible harangue. When Pakistani Ambassador Sahabzada Yaqub Khan failed to appear, the stranger asked the Secret Service to broadcast his demand for a meeting. The guards complied, and the man listened to the message on his car radio. Then he plucked a white cloth from his pocket and waved it in the air in surrender. The guards found that he was carrying no explosives, only emergency flares...