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...crew, which included approximately 80 freshmen, worked eight-hour days beginning at 8 a.m. During their free time, the students perused the Square, relaxed in the Yard, or socialized in their rooms...
Progress has recently been made in other areas of herpes research. Dr. Lata Nerurkar of the National Institute of Neurological Communicative Disorders and Stroke has developed a 24-hour test to diagnose herpes; she predicts that a six-to eight-hour method will be available by year's end. Only six months ago it took from two to seven days to diagnose herpes. Speed is especially important in the case of women who are about to give birth. If the disease is active, doctors generally resort to caesarian delivery since the baby may become infected-often fatally-while passing...
...extends our diagnostic capability from just routine EEG sampling to a seven to eight-hour period of monitoring the patients," Stakes says...
...have been removed. The big-time dealers organize "clubs" that change locations every few hours and employ as many as 40 people as lookouts, runners and baggers. There are even bouncers who check the needle marks on customers' arms as though they were membership cards. Some of Alphabet Town's 15 or so clubs have their own house brands of drugs, like "Lucky Seven" cocaine or such standard heroin varieties as "Poison" and "Colt .45." Employees work strict business hours: there are three eight-hour shifts a day. Each club can gross upwards of $100,000 daily; many...
...weeks later. He is a hypochondriac. He owns twelve video games and plays with them for an hour a day. He is convinced that his Malibu beach house will be undermined by waves, although it does not seem to be in danger, and when asleep there he spends arduous eight-hour nights dreaming of piling sandbags around the foundation. He will not set foot in the ocean because there are sharks out there. He should know. "I think we survive on our fears," he says of Americans. "We're a tough race...