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...Evan's frustration mounted visibly in the second set. After throwing her racket at the wall in frustration, she handed the match over by double faulting twice at 4-4 to give Fusco the crucial lead in the 10th game...
...curare, an arrow poison from the Amazon now used to paralyze muscles during surgery. Tetrodotoxin may also one day find its place in the medical armamentarium. "People who have lived in the tropics for centuries have learned things about plants and animals that we have not fathomed," says Richard Evan Schultes, head of Harvard's renowned Botanical Museum. "We must not leave any stone unturned, or their secrets will be lost...
...more than any other Republican since Eisenhower. Whichever Democrat survives the nine innings of the primary season may find himself pitching next season to the Republicans' best hitter, probably with the bases loaded. Getting there may be half the fun. -By George J. Church. Reported by Christopher Ogden/Chicago, Evan Thomas/ Washington and Jack E. White/New York
Doctors, social workers and psychiatrists have frequently been even less helpful than the police. Evan Stark, research associate at Yale's Institution for Social and Policy Studies, and his wife, Dr. Anne Flitcraft, in a study of family violence, concluded that the medical profession and social agencies "are an essential part of the battered syndrome." Says Stark: "They treat the women like they are crazy." Doctors fail to note signs of abuse, label battered women psychotic or hypochondriacal, prescribe tranquilizers and tell them to go home, and "make a woman doubt her own sanity" by sending her to a family...
Reported by Evan Thomas/Washington