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...Flares (intense disturbances) on the sun often shoot high-energy protons all the way to earth. During the period July 10-18, 1959. for example, protons from a sun flare would have given spacemen a deadly dose of radiation during each day of orbiting...
Once again, this time in South Africa, the soft underbelly of the Western "free" nations reveals a startling and potentially dangerous weakness. Race tensions and hatreds, while long played down as having no real effect on the ability of the Western alliance to oppose Communism, flare forth as a glaring reminder that this could be the Achilles' heel that Khrushchev has been looking for. It is a situation made to order for those trying to sell Communism as the panacea for all the tragic ills suffered by the black man at the hands of "democratic" governments...
They were mainly worried about the recent flare-up of religion-in-politics issues. Answering one editor's question, Nixon deplored the fact that Democrat Jack Kennedy's Catholicism had been injected as an issue into the Wisconsin primary...
...normal people, he said, the hydrocortisone output goes up sharply in the early morning hours to a peak around 6 a.m., then falls gradually to a nighttime resting level. In a rheumatoid arthritis victim, this pattern is generally reversed. Lacking adaptive ability, the patient reacts with a flare-up of disease when the cortisone tide ebbs. This may happen after delivery to a woman who has been free of arthritis symptoms during pregnancy. The letdown phenomenon is also seen in patients after long-term cortisone treatment...
...days earlier the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold had abruptly issued a warning that the Middle East situation was again "deteriorating." The origins of the flare-up date from Israel's claustrophobic feeling of isolation in the Arab Middle East, and its conviction that the indifferent rest of the world has reneged on its promise to keep the Suez Canal open to Israeli shipping. Seizing upon a small incident on the Syrian border last month, Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion launched Israel's first reprisal raid since the 1956 Sinai invasion, blasting and leveling a Syrian village...