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...urgently seeking to convince the world that the Soviet Union has been guilty, in Afghanistan and Southeast Asia, of violating international bans on chemical warfare. The alleged weapon: "yellow rain," a lethal spray of poisons. The Soviets have denied the charge, and a United Nations panel was unable to confirm it. Now, to the considerable embarrassment of U.S. officials, a group of respected scientists has offered a new theory. Said Harvard Biochemist Matthew Meselson last week at a meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science: "There is good evidence that yellow rain is bee excrement...
...dark chapter. On top of Harvard's standard academic and social pressure, the visitor from the Midwest had to struggle with a mysterious illness that caused debilitating headaches and depression junior and senior years. His ultimately successful battle against the ailment, and in particular his self-diagnosis, only confirm the power of Bremen-style tenacity: "You just figure that there's got to be some way to beat that problem...
...preliminary, however, to the real battle between the Rebel Alliance and the corrupt Empire, and to the contest of wills between Luke, the last of the Jedis, and the black-caped, black-masked Darth Vader. Yoda, the 900-year-old Jedi master from The Empire Strikes Back, reappears to confirm what Luke feared most: Darth Vader is indeed his father, a former Jedi knight who was seduced by the evil Emperor and turned to the "dark" side of the Force, to hate rather than to love. Luke will never be a real Jedi, Yoda says, until he has confronted...
This is the case with tonight's patient After the all-night session, the results of the monitors will confirm the diagnosis of a severe obstruction in his throat, and the need for a tracheotomy. In other words, the patient will have a permanent incision made in his throat, which will enable him to sleep uninterrupted by bypassing the block. "Laxity of the soft tissues in the throat and palate," according to Stakes, makes the operation necessary...
...been an open secret that the State Department took care neither to confirm nor deny. As long as it was widely believed but not officially acknowledged that the U.S. was helping Afghan guerrillas resist the Soviet occupation of their country, the Reagan Administration enjoyed the best of all worlds. It could bask in the credit for aiding a just cause without interference from Congress or propaganda attacks from the East bloc...