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Vincent was ill when he arrived in Aries, jittery from booze, racked with smoker's cough. He had expected, curiously enough, that the place would look like one of the Japanese prints by Hokusai or Utamaro that had been circulating among avant-garde painters in Paris. In a way it did: the ground was covered with snow, like the top of Fuji. But soon it (and he) melted, and in his letters no less than in his paintings one sees the colors that sign his Arlesian period, the yellow, ultramarine and mauve. In the late spring, "the landscape gets...
DOES THIS SOUND familiar? The Northeast, Massachusetts, Eastern Massachusetts. Yes, the Boston area. No, over towards MIT. You know Brigham's, outside the T-stop? Well, it's right across from there. Yeah, (cough) Harvard...
Measles, mumps, rubella, whooping cough, diphtheria, polio. One by one in this century the scourges of youth have fallen before the marvel of vaccines. But there has been no similar victory against the last of childhood's common infectious diseases: chickenpox, or as it is known medically, varicella. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, the virus-caused illness strikes about 3 million youngsters each year, approximately as many children as there are babies born...
Symptoms of the illness, which include chest congestion, high fever, muscle aches and a cough, last from a week to 10 days, said Dr. Sholem Postel, chief of professional services...
...primary argument put forth in defense of Harvard funding for ROTC has been one of finances. Harvard receives more in the form of scholarship money than it would spend in supporting ROTC. This scholarship aid may be cut off if Harvard doesn't cough up the money for MIT. Yet the University does not seem to have pursued other ways of preserving this student and from ROTC. The most obvious solution would be for the military to fund its own programs. At a time when the Federal commitment to higher education is declining, student aid programs are being...