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...delighted to read [June 7] about the latest innovation in baby feeders. About two years ago I, too, thought I'd found the best product available-no measuring, no mixing, no rewarming, re-washing or sterilizing. The drawback was that I couldn't be thrown away...
Carlo Confalonieri, 69, and Ildebrando Antoniutti, 64, both appear to be moderate-minded Curia professionals with few enemies; their major drawback is a lack of pastoral experience...
...Those Pills." During World War II, "Atabrine discipline" was difficult to enforce because the antimalaria drug made many a serviceman's skin turn yellow. Today's malaria preventives have no such drawback. But medical officers in all the armed forces still have to fight against ignorance and superstition. It takes only one oddball muttering "Those pills will make you sterile, buddy," and rumor buzzes around the base. Great quantities of medicine get flushed down the toilets. Penicillin was whispered to impair potency. Recruits who were supposed to take it daily as a preventive against rheumatic fever often spat...
...brace of the waddling birds can keep an acre of cotton weeded; a gaggle of twelve geese can gobble as much as a hard-working man can clear with a hoe. Cotton-goosing farmers save $20 per acre compared with the stiffer cost of chemical weeding. The only drawback to the system is that the geese, grown fat from their weed-gorging, occasionally trample down the young cotton. But after their chores are done, and the cotton is safely off to the gin, the geese themselves can always be peddled to help pay for the loss...
...makes them not only cooler in summer but infinitely cleaner all year round (on every square mile of New York City, 89.6 tons of soot fall each month). They are lighter; the hanging curtain wall has made possible many times as much window space. But they have one serious drawback: they are bigger, which means more people, which means more congestion...