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Sugar & Fat. Some of his teen-age patients drank as much as four quarts of milk a day, Dr. Fisher found, and their acne tapered off as soon as he tapered off their milk. His acne patients drank up to four times as much milk as the general population. Cow's milk contains 3½ times as much salt as human milk, Dr. Fisher noted, along with generous amounts of butterfat and milk sugar. And Dr. Fisher accuses sugars as well as fats of aggravating acne. More to the point, male hormones (androgens) have long been recognized...
...most frequently foiled. All too often white segregationists go on killing civil rights workers without fear of conviction, and white police terrorize Negroes and arrest the victims as suspects. To the Southern Negro, it still seems that the whole system of law winks at nearly every lawless scheme to cow him and keep him from his rights...
...farmers who argue that "fast time," as they call it, wrecks their harvests since they cannot begin work until the dew is off the hay. Furthermore, they complain, it is one thing to tell a man to get up an hour earlier, quite another thing to tell a cow...
Death & the Elephant. Based on a 19th century lottery to boost attendance at the Rio zoo, the animal game is no ordinary numbers racket. It starts off with 25 animals, each of which is assigned four consecutive numbers (from 01-04 for the ostrich to 97-00 for the cow). Odds for a straight animal bet are 20 to 1, but few bettors stop there. They can get 70 to 1 for guessing the last two figures of the winning number, 700 to 1 for the last three figures, 6,000 to 1 for getting all four figures right. They...
...trio's childhood friendship, surprisingly, shows no suspicion of strain despite a furious schedule that has filled their last year with 25 TV shots, a tour of Europe, and one-nighters in places like Yale, San Francisco's Cow Palace and Manhattan's Philharmonic Hall.† All three are still single. Though Diana, as lead singer, carries the heaviest load, they divide their earnings evenly. Using last year's take of $250,000 each (it may hit $400,000 this year), they moved their families into three modest duplexes on the same street in Detroit...