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...main retreat has been the traditional academic one. He mentions his Columbia appointment incessantly. In fact, one of the deadliest experiences I've encountered since reading Cleero in translation is Sarris's film curricula in the original. He has almost achieved dignity, and it has spoiled his original persuasiveness. He knows people expect certain arguments from him now, and he trundles them out cut and dried (if not neatly). Can anyone really care about language and write a sentence as clumsy as this next...
...dictionary. It can also be found immediately beneath contempt in Ralph Nader's vast lexicon of villains. To Nader, the ABM and the smart bomb are scarcely more lethal than a chain of processed sausages. Hot dogs, insists the consumer advocate, are "among America's deadliest missiles." New York City's Consumer Affairs Commissioner Bess Myerson agrees: "After I found out what was in hot dogs, I stopped eating them." This people's entrée, this frank companion of alfresco meals and ball games-can it really be a finger-shaped monster? So it appears...
...legends of Eastern Europe, the vampire took many horrendous forms, but south of the Rio Grande vampiro means just one thing: a tiny bat that sucks the blood of humans and animals and carries rabies, the deadliest of infectious diseases. Despite its minuscule proportions-an adult may weigh as little as one-half ounce and seldom more than 1½ ounces-the common vampire has made it economically impractical to raise cattle or horses in large areas from central Mexico to central Argentina. Efforts to destroy Desmodus rotundus by such crude methods as dynamiting or using flamethrowers in his cave...
...many diseases that are apt to erupt in recruit camps when thousands of young men from diverse backgrounds are thrown together, one of the deadliest is Type C virulent meningitis. The fatality rate is high, and death may occur within a few hours after appearance of the first symptoms. Even victims who recover may suffer permanent deafness or brain damage. Now, reported Lieut. Colonel Phillip E. Winter, the Army has a highly effective vaccine, which was developed by the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research. In the 1970-71 respiratory-disease season, when the vaccine was used only after epidemics...
...calling the breeder concept "dangerous and unproved." Some objections focus on the use of liquid sodium (a tricky substance that explodes on contact with water and burns in air) as a cooling medium. Others concern the fuel, plutonium, the basic ingredient of the hydrogen bomb and one of the deadliest substances known. Finally, the critics wonder how to get rid of radioactive wastes from any nuclear reactor, some of which remain lethal for 500,000 years. At present, the AEC plans to store them in large concrete containers at an as yet unspecified location. Then they must be watched...