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Members of some 2 million U.S. families are allergic to cats. Feline saliva contains the offending substance, a protein called Fel d1 (for Felis domesticus 1) that is left on the fur and skin during preening, a full-time preoccupation of most cats. As a result, houses full of cat hair and dander cause uncomfortable reactions in 25% of allergy sufferers. "Some 70% of cat owners allow their cats to sleep with them in their beds," says Dr. Joseph Wedner, chief of allergy and clinical immunology at Washington University. "There's no better way to make someone allergic...
...item was tucked away in a breathless potpourri of gossip on page D1 of the Washington Post. Diana McClellan, whose trendy column "The Ear" was only into its second week after shifting from the defunct Washington Star, quoted unidentified "close pals" of Rosalynn Carter as saying that Blair House, where Ronald and Nancy Reagan had stayed in preInauguration visits to Washington, "was bugged" at that time. "At least one tattler in the Carter tribe," wrote McClellan, "has described listening in to the tape itself." The item concluded: "Stay tuned, uh, whoever's listening...
English S-D1, "English as Foreign Language," has 215 students for the first term. The second session, English S-D2, has 154 students. The course's enrollment has more than doubled over the past three years, Marshall R. Pihl, associate director of the Summer School, said yesterday...
...this year--the first increase in five years--the percentage of Harvard students taking summer courses dropped from one-fifth to one-sixth of the student body. TEN MOST POPULAR COURSES CHEMISTRY S-1 137 CHEMISTRY S-20 135 EXPOSITORY WRITING 131 UKRAINIAN HISTORY S-1544 129 ENGLISH S-D1 102 UKRAINIAN LANGUAGE S-B 92 CELL BIOLOGY S-123 5 BIO-CHEM S-100 76 BIOLOGY S-1B 68 ECONOMICS...
...Each has different symbols, but a fair sample is Standard's: Sound bank quality-A1+, A1 and A; borderline bank quality-B1 + ; speculative-B1, B, C1+, C1 and C; defaulted bonds-D1+, D1...