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Kidney defects or malformed hearts in newborn infants show a definite relationship to at least four viruses-three of the Coxsackie and one of the Echo group, all distantly related to poliovirus. The infection may be so mild that the mother-to-be does not appear ill. To get their evidence, University of Michigan researchers followed 4,000 women through pregnancy, making frequent tests of blood antibodies to keep tab on the viruses they had picked...
...Your Aug. 16 report on the bads seems to echo the savory words of Mark Twain, printed in 1892 by the New York Sun: "What I have been through in these two weeks would free a person of pretty much everything in him that wasn't nailed there-any loose thing, any unattached fragment of bone, or meat or morals, or disease or propensities or accomplishments, or what not. And I don't say but that I feel well enough, I feel better than I would if I was dead. I reckon." These words seem appropriate also: "They...
...place us in the shadows, so far as renewing of the Church through the Word and Spirit of the Gospel is concerned? What if we should discover that the last are first and the first last, that the voice of the Good Shepherd should find a clearer echo over there than among us?" The renewal of Roman Catholicism, Earth concludes, summons Protestantism to seek its own renewal, "to sweep away the dust before the door of our own church with a careful but nevertheless mighty broom...
...book, or sumpin'" a crewman remarks) but with a capacity for human error (he rams his boat into the dock, then gets it cut in half by a Japanese destroyer). Above all "the skinny, boyish lieutenant from Boston" is a fount of homely wisdom. One can sense the echo, if only dimly, of the famous Kennedy rhetoric: "They'll do a good job for us" he says of his crew, "if we do one for them...
...first time, Morocco's Ahmed Benhima presided over the Security Council. Turning to the chairman, Ghana's fiery Ambassador Alex Quaison-Sackey cried in an inverted echo of Churchill: "He has been called upon by destiny to preside over the liquidation of the Portuguese Empire...