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Gradually, the children moved away. Laura went into the Army, where, following the family's almost obsessive occupational interest, she became a communications specialist. Cynthia went to West Dennis, Mass., on Cape Cod, with her newborn son. Margaret moved to Virginia. Michael joined his father in 1980, completing his final two years of high school at Norfolk's private Ryan Upper School...
...told agents that nearly 15 years ago she saw John put a classified document into a trash bag and leave it near a tree at the side of a road in the Washington area. An FBI source presumed to be Barbara, who is now a shop employee on Cape Cod, also revealed that John was seen retrieving $35,000 in cash that had been left for him in a garbage bag near Washington. The FBI kept John under continual surveillance for six months, patiently waiting for him to make an overt move. Finally, on May 19, they observed him staging...
...Burr now sits on the steering committee for Harvard's 350th Anniversary Celebration, and will receive a Harvard Medal this week for his service to the University. today. Between Boston and New York the preferred method of travel was by steamer--either for the entire distance through the Cape Cod Canal, which had not been open for long, or more quickly by train to Fall River and thence by water...
Researchers are only beginning to fathom the complex biochemical reasons for this effect. Fish, specifically such cold-water species as cod, salmon, sardines and mackerel, contain certain polyunsaturated oils that are found in no other foods and have profound effects on body chemistry. A diet rich in these fats reduces the tendency of blood to clot, much the way that aspirin does; it also helps lower the level of cholesterol in the blood. Both effects could help explain the low rate of heart disease in Eskimos...
...evidence both in animals and humans suggests that such a diet may help relieve symptoms of arthritis and perhaps other inflammatory diseases. However, says Dr. K. Frank Austen of Harvard, it is too early to make any recommendations, and fish-oil experts sound a special note of caution on cod-liver oil, which can be toxic in high doses...