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...Make the Frost-laden atmosphere mellow...
Called cryosurgery, from the Greek kryos (cold or frost), the new method actually involves neither ice nor scalpel. The surgeon inserts a thin cannula (tube) that kills offending tissue with liquid nitrogen's intense cold (- 196° C., or 321° below zero F.). Usually no tissue is actually removed, and the body's natural clean-up system removes the debris. Virtually bloodless and almost painless, cryosurgery can be done on patients who remain fully conscious or only lightly anesthetized. In some cases cryosurgery is used only to relieve symptoms, but in others it achieves actual cures. Among...
...behemoth up to 63 m.p.h. in 9.7 seconds, faster than some sports cars, and the four-wheel disk brakes can stop it on a pfennig. A pneumatic suspension system keeps the car on an even keel through the sharpest curve, invisible wires in the rear window banish ice and frost, and a poke of the finger simultaneously locks all four doors, the trunk and the gas tank...
Harvard has run through Igor Stravinsky, Paul Hindemith, Aaron Copland, and the late Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot and E. E. Cummings. Wesleyan's Center for Advanced Studies has attracted Author Paul Horgan. Some artists become permanent faculty fixtures, such as Yale's Novelist Robert Penn Warren and Minnesota's Poet Allen Tate. Saul Bellow, temporary writer in residence at Chicago, has fit so unobtrusively into the faculty that Coed Barbara Samuels observes: "For us he's the teacher, not the great novelist...
...Jean, he dreamed of escaping from Philistia to Bohemia. Both succeeded, Louis becoming an anthologist, poet, critic, and a man of many marriages-five in all, two of them to Jean. She plunged into music, poetry and the keeping of a salon, where she paraded such lions as Robert Frost and Edna St. Vincent Millay, Ezra Pound and Siegfried Sassoon...