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A more exotic explanation was posed in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1985 by Dr. Alexander Langmuir, formerly chief epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. Thucydides' description, Langmuir theorized, fit the criteria for influenza complicated by toxic shock syndrome. And although this peculiar combination of...
Having raised up the Castel Sant'Angelo from the depths of the Metropolitan Opera in Tosca and put half of Paris onstage for La Boheme, Franco Zeffirelli must have felt some pressure to top himself with his new production of Giacomo Puccini's Turandot. Curious first-nighters, proud holders of...
National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger wanted to ban testing and deployment of exotic systems, but not research and development. He argued that it was impossible to verify a ban on research taking place in a laboratory -- and besides, it would be good to have an R. and D. program as...
Thus when it voted 88 to 2 to give the treaty the status of law, the Senate knew what it was doing: ratifying an explicit ban on the development and testing of space-based, exotic ABMs -- precisely the type of SDI system that the Reagan Administration now argues it can...
It is likely that Hamnett picked up some of her more exotic expletives during a girlhood that was spent around the military. Her father was a British air attache, and she and her family shuttled between European air bases and embassies, where she played at being "mademoiselle on the reception...