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...anxiety tension problem is a nationwide epidemic "as serious as the bubonic plague," Humes says, explaining that a tension epidemic is more frightening "because the symptoms are harder to detect...

Author: By Esme C. Murphy, | Title: River St. Group Runs Massage Clinic | 5/23/1980 | See Source »

...fourth inning, spectators can detect traces of green artificial turf. Eventually, the playing surface emerges but the snowfall continues until the top of the ninth...

Author: By Laurence S. Grafstein, | Title: What If the Blue Jays Abscond With the A.L. East Crown? | 5/16/1980 | See Source »

Still, a graver defect alienates us from the story at times. Hazzard suffers a cultural manneredness that sometimes overwhelms the pleasure we take in the novel's intelligent style. Occasionally we detect pretentiousness, a conscious literacy, an assumed intellectual and artistic sophistication. Allusions to literature, paintings, sculptures, mythology, and the great, exotic places of the world abound, and while we enjoy this armchair journey, Hazzard cannot always assimilate it into the flow; it becomes unfortunate, irksome baggage. She establishes Caro Bell, the Australian heroine, as a charming and sensitive woman, but Caro's literary cultivation seems incongruously elevated from what...

Author: By F. MARK Muro, | Title: Passengers in Transit | 5/8/1980 | See Source »

Conventional radar stations on which Tornado Alley still depends are capable of picking up certain telltale signs that can presage tornadoes, including so-called hook echoes-reflections from areas of heavy precipitation surrounding a rotating parcel of air. But they cannot detect actual movement within the storm. By contrast, Doppler radar not only measures the direction of air flows, but actually clocks the speeds of raindrops and ice particles as they are whirled about in a brewing tornado...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: A New Twist in Forecasting | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

...which to begin having annual guaiac slide tests on stool to detect intestinal bleeding has been raised from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Timetables for Cancer Checks | 3/31/1980 | See Source »

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