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...human brain and the rest of the central nervous system are immersed in a bath of cerebrospinal fluid, which must remain at a constant pressure. Anything that causes a significant increase in that pressure-a brain tumor, a hemorrhage, a bad head injury-may be fatal unless the fluid can be drained off in time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Capsules, Feb. 27, 1978 | 2/27/1978 | See Source »

...postprofessionalism have sent Harvard's aspiring humorists packing off to Lamont, Baker and Langdell for the execution of life's harsh sentence: NO MORE FUNNY BUSINESS, KIDS. There are only 100 jokes left on the planet Earth, produced and sustained in a Harvard p-3 laboratory with a secret fluid extracted from the funny bone of Mark O'Donnell [before he did that silly piece in New Times]. An underground group of renegade "funny" students--all of whom remember the good old days of Padan Aram, The University Enquirer, and Stephen S.J. Hall--decide they'd like...

Author: By Richard S. Weisman, | Title: The 130th Clone | 2/25/1978 | See Source »

...earlier bout, Cathy Lowry, who won three times out of four on the evening, as did Cooper and Sze, climbed back from a 3-0 deficit against Mary Varkus with fierce determination when her normally fluid and well executed attacks failed...

Author: By Stephen A. Herzenberg, | Title: Determined Crimson Fencers Disarm Battling Wellesley, 10-6 | 2/22/1978 | See Source »

...arms can still be lifeless. My head is not always right." She has been teaching her role in Emeralds to Ghislaine Thesmar, a French ballerina who is as elegant in a Gallic way as Ashley is in her very American style. "Ghislaine's arms are romantic and fluid," muses Ashley. "I just don't have that quality yet." She is right. But the odds are that she will find her own equivalent-or know the reason why. Her goals are strong and they are focused. "The classics can wait. Right now the place to be is where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dance: Boys and Girls, but Not Together | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

After considerable research, both sides concluded that most homosexuality is not the result of conscious choice and that it stems more from an unexplained complex of psychosocial forces than from heredity. The liberal side relied heavily on psychological theory, while conservatives pointed out that scientific findings are fluid and conflicting. Finally, however, both the majority and minority sides staked their case on the Bible. The two passages that drew most attention were the condemnation of homosexual relations in Leviticus 18:22 (repeated in 20:13) and St. Paul's teaching in Romans 1:18-32 that homosexual acts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Homosexuality and the Clergy | 1/30/1978 | See Source »

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