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Even the most rabid fans need a little fresh writing to help them get through a star's off-season tome. Sportswriters today generally rely on the excitement of pennant or cup fever to sell their books. The rare sports classic is the book that can be read when the players involved have finished their stretch drives and surrendered the headlines to the athletic endeavors of others...
...East as a whole is consistently immune to bowl fever, its lone pigskin potentate--Joe Paterno--is a walking, talking epidemic. When the Temples and the Boston Colleges fail to translate enthusiasm into bowl bids, Paterno's Nittany Lions from Penn State (13 miles from the gas station) stalk inexorably the big-time football jungle that lesser Eastern mortals never dare to enter. Six times in seven years they've played in bowls, and they've dumped Texas (Cotton, 1972), thrashed LSU (Orange, 1974) and given Oklahoma (Sugar, 1973) the Sooners' biggest scare in years...
Meanwhile, strike fever seems to be spreading. Some 16,000 members of the Amalgamated Transit Union last week struck Greyhound bus lines. The union seeks an increase of 600 an hour above the current average wage of $5.76. Many of Greyhound's passengers were left stranded by the strike. Countless students and other travelers heading home for Thanksgiving found it hard to find space on crowded trains, planes, and nonstriking bus lines...
Paradise Lost's second major flaw is Rothschild's writing style. While the book is often intelligible, barrages of jumbled sentences and creative grammar make the reader question her very analytical ability. ("From the mid 1910s, sustained by national machine fever, the auto investment boom swerved higher and higher.") Unfortunately, she is not alone in this regard. Nader's reports are notoriously unreadable, and many of today's most valuable contributions to the field of corporate responsibility are disguised in language which can only be intended to impress the reader by confusing him. It is more than annoying that some...
Psittacosis, or parrot fever, produces chills, fever, nausea and occasional pulmonary disorders; if untreated, 20% of its victims will die. Not surprisingly, it most often strikes people who keep or handle parrots or other pet birds. But psittacosis may not be the only ailment that bird owners can acquire from their feathered friends. A pair of English researchers report in The Lancet that the same organism that causes parrot fever may also bring on a form of heart dis ease. Doctors have long been looking for causes other than rheumatic fever for disease of the heart valves; it is only...