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...Fear a Phōs Balbhan (The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife), a one-act farce adapted from Rabelais by Librettist Tomás Mac Anna. In a surrealistic setting showing both the inside and outside of a peasant's cottage, the hero hires a doctor to cure his speechless wife. The doctor does this by telling her of her husband's carryings-on with other women. When she finally speaks, she does it so abusively that the hero asks to be made deaf, and the curtain falls as he peacefully sings that deafness is the cure...
...cure, says Harno, cannot be found in merely adding more courses : too many schools have already tried to broaden their students by adding such subjects as law and society, law and the economic order, law and labor. To provide practical skills, they have added legal writing, legal drafting, legal accounting. "All this the schools ... are attempting to pour into the ancient measure - the three-year course of study. What is resulting is something just this side of chaos...
...cancerous mice. When the cancers were later removed from these mice, the doctors found that the radioactive antibodies had concentrated in the malignant tissue. The hope: to transport destructive amounts of radioactivity to human cancer tissue selectively, and without damage to normal tissue. ¶ There is no known cure for leukemia, the blood-corpuscle cancer to which children seem particularly prone, but medicine has developed several methods of controlling it for limited periods. Five doctors from Memorial Center reported a new addition to medicine's weapons against leukemia: a chemical known as 6-mercaptopurine. One hundred and seven patients...
...striking specimen. His perfectly muscled body was only 5 ft. 6 in. high, his visage was stern, beaked and remorseless, his eyes of a peculiar hazel which became somberly multicolored in moments of passion. His teeth were none too good-per haps because he believed that the cure for toothache was to chew hard on a piece of mahogany ("massage," he called it). He always slept soundly; even when many anxieties were on his mind, his snores resounded "like coal going down a chute." Though his joints cracked like muskets when he did his one-legged heave...
...Jester," he glowed, "I've got the sure cure for circulation...