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Titled Ms. after the movement's preferred form of female address (instead of Mrs. or Miss), the magazine will appear on its own in January with a special double issue and then lie dormant until late spring, when monthly publication is scheduled to start. Elizabeth Harris, 49, a former vice president of CRM, Inc. (Psychology Today, Intellectual Digest), will serve as publisher. Editor Steinem, 37, envisions Ms. as a nonsexist "how to" magazine "for the liberated female human being-not how to make jelly but how to seize control of your life...
...Paralysis. One day Kovac brings Karin to his excavation to show off his prize, a centuries-old madonna, which is being consumed from within by mysterious insects that had lain dormant for 500 years and revived only when the figure was brought up from underground. It is an obvious and not especially felicitous metaphor for Karin herself. When the lovers finally part and Karin desperately pursues David to London, she meets his sister, a cripple suffering from an unnamed muscular paralysis, which she claims to share with her brother. Karin reacts to this as if it were a kind...
...always signal the presence of botulinum toxin, one of the most deadly poisons known to man. (One ounce of the poison is enough to kill the entire population of the U.S.) The toxin is produced by the hard-shelled spores of the Clostridium botulinum bacteria, which lie dormant in !he soil but flourish in the airless environment of canned foods when they are improperly processed. Heating at 212° for five hours or at 240° for 30 minutes is sufficient to kill the bacteria during the canning process. But occasionally food is unsufficiently heated, particularly during home canning...
Gierek has also sought to instill a wider sense of participation in his people. The Communist Party remains supreme. Nonetheless, Gierek has started to revive the long dormant National Unity Front, in which some of Poland's remaining nonparty groups-notably the United Peasants' Party and Catholic organizations-have been given at least a nominal voice in framing government policy...
...initial quarantine tests at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory and subsequent tests which similarly tried to induce growth of native lunar organisms in a variety of environments established the absence of live or dormant organisms on the moon. Then careful microscopic examination of thin slices of lunar rock failed to reveal any remnants of fossils of once-living organisms. There were some crystal formations which resembled colonies of organisms but they were found to be caused by non-living natural processes...