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...libretto, knew that it was "potentially full of corn." but did it because "I'm kind of tired of Freud and Jung in ballet." Adds Director Lew Christensen of the San Francisco Ballet: "It's a good story, and the audience is not belabored with reading pro gram notes to find out what's going on." As the ballet opens, a spinning sun swirling over a landscape like a moon crater gives way to a lush Garden of Eden where two angels. Raphael and Lucifer, poke Adam into life with their swords. Magnificently danced by Roderick Drew...
...desk showed what drugs a Liberian freighter is required to carry. The doctor wrote out a message: Tea and Mineral Water. "Keep the patient in bed with absolute rest. Apply linseed poultices continuously on the swollen jaw. Give intramuscular injection of 500,000 units of penicillin combined with half gram of streptomycin morning and evening. Give only weak tea, orange juice, mineral water for 24 hours." After two days the Henri G. reported: "Patient seems better this morning. Yesterday evening pulse go fever 102 this morning pulse 70 temperature 98.6.'' More exchanges followed. Finally the Henri...
...neurons. The smaller glial (meaning gluey) cells stick to the neurons like caviar on a canape. Hyden and his colleagues at Goteborg, by exquisitely delicate techniques, have separated neurons from their adherent glial cells and have weighed them in units as small as millionths of a millionth of a gram. By taking fresh, still-living cells from a rabbit's brain, the Hyden team has been able to find out how they use and convert their chemical fuels under varying conditions...
...Brookline's Brooks Hospital, Dr. Lind examined feathers in pillow stuffings that had been "sanitized" (washed, heat-treated and chemically disinfected) to Government standards. He found huge amounts of residual bacteria: up to 13 million organisms per gram. Most are probably harmless to humans, but at least three diseases-including psittacosis, or "parrot fever"-can be transmitted to humans from fowl; all three can be spread by feathers from infected birds. Dr. Lind found more than germs inside old hospital pillows. Items that turned up amid the feathers: stones, corn, glass, metal strips, nails, a broken thermometer, false teeth...
...ingredient turned out to be pectin, a carbohydrate well known to many U.S. housewives: it is the substance that makes jelly jell. Keys found that taking 15 grams of pectin daily for three weeks lowered blood cholesterol levels by an average of ten milligrams-"a modest but significant amount." For Americans who want to keep the doctor away, Keys added a familiar note: his 15-gram daily dose corresponds roughly to the amount of pectin found in two ripe apples...