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...after five years of testing, a new blood extract called RhoGAM has arrived on the market. It enables doctors to protect each subsequent child by merely inoculating the mother. RhoGAM consists of a gamma-globulin fraction rich in Rh antibodies. Injected into the Rh-negative mother's bloodstream no later than three days after a miscarriage or the birth of her first Rh-positive child, it curtails her immune mechanism's production of antibodies and lessens the danger to future Rh-positive children. The inoculation must be repeated after each miscarriage or birth, but the tests show that...
...rapid-transit spur that will convey travelers by train from downtown to Hopkins Airport. New York is similarly experimenting with buses that can go part of the way to Kennedy by rail. Most cities, however, are unimpressed by fixed-route service, since downtown passengers are now only a fraction of the total. The remainder reach the airport from the suburbs or surrounding towns, and the only realistic way to service them is to build still more expressways wide enough to avoid the slowdowns that cause passengers to be caught in traffic jams when their airplanes are taking...
...objects on display are only a fraction of Coolidge's acquisitions. The rest, like 3/4 of the objects the Fogg owns, are never shown to the public. Sculpture fragments, torn paintings, forgeries and most prints and drawings are stored in the basement and print and drawing rooms and are used only for study and instruction. Many large bequests of miscellane- ous art must be attributed and sometimes restored before the works which are good enough to be exhibited can be separated from those which...
...anonymous a person needs many others around to show him what a small fraction of his world knows him. The six dormitories house hundreds, most of whom don't know the people across the hall. All student activities are located in the same building and are given room numbers of three figures. Everyone goes through the same doors, rides the same elevators, and walks the same paths every day. This absence of individual identity leads to the mass of graffiti-ing all over campus and the disregard for the privacy of Grayson Kirk's cigars...
...Publisher Gleb Rar by a variety of well-planned means, including secret contacts arranged by Rar between Russian writers and Western visitors (one was British Lecturer Gerald Brooke, who is serving a five-year prison sentence for bringing in anti-Soviet propaganda). Rar says that he prints "only a fraction" of what he gets. Usually, as in Cancer Ward, he publishes excerpts in Grani first and then a full text through Grani's parent publishing house, Possev, which prints a variety of Russian-language fiction and nonfiction titles; much of its output is smuggled back into Russia...