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...sound. There is simply nothing to do with them. The circle of magazines with significant readership trafficking in short fiction remains plodding and exclusive, and, young short story writers are left to show their work to their girlfriends and to languish with the melodrama of art. Worse, publishers droop when a collection of short stories claws its way onto their desks, especially if it's produced by an unestablished writer. What young writer--besides Jayne Anne Phillips. Ann Beattie and Barry Hannah?--has been awarded a whole volume of short stories: and if young writers dedicated to the discipline...
...symptoms: gasping and coughing, often followed by nervous disorders. Upon taking a drink of water, affected birds walk backward. Their wings droop, their legs drag, and they may become totally paralyzed within a few days. Poultrymen have developed vaccines against the more common forms of Newcastle, which was first recognized at Newcastle upon Tyne, England, in 1926. Since then a more virulent strain has emerged. It was carried, Government officials suspect, by the rare tropical birds that are smuggled into the U.S., often by illicit drug dealers, and sold to eager buyers at fancy prices...
...funny droop nose may recall the Concorde jet, but the exIts funny droop nose may recall the Concorde jet, but the experimental car unveiled by British Leyland last week does something much better than fly supersonic: driven at a steady 30 m.p.h., it gets 100 miles to the gallon. Push the pedal to 60 m.p.h., and BL's Energy Conservation Vehicle 2, or ECV, still gets a respectable 60 m.p.g...
...which is not expected to roll off assembly lines before 1988, is a modified version of the company's 50 m.p.g. Mini Metro model being introduced this summer. The droop nose helps save gas by reducing aerodynamic drag, but the real secret behind the experimental ECV lies underneath-a novel three-cylinder engine. The ECV body, about the size of a Ford Pinto, is bantam weight. Bereft of bumpers and stripped of all interior furnishings except for the drivers seat, the test car tips the scales at 1,320 lbs. The body is constructed largely of lightweight aluminum...
...chopped a sharp $13 off the price of gold; during the preceding weeks it had climbed by more than $100 to hit a momentary alltime high of $447 an ounce before settling back to about $385 at the beginning of October. Not only did the yellow metal on Monday droop to $372, but the dollar rebounded smartly on international exchanges, suggesting that its latest round of being bullied was coming...