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...just that by carving bold, ultramodern, eminently convenient resorts out of empty mountain space. The most popular resorts-Flaine, Avoriaz, Les Arcs and La Plagne -are located in the Savoie region; generally, the slopes they offer are every bit as formidable as the more famous runs at Kitzbühel and St. Moritz. Crisscrossed with the latest in téléphériques (cabin lifts), garlanded with heated swimming pools, bedecked with strobe-lighted discotheques, the swinging new French resorts have an allure of adventure and practicality all their own. How many ski resorts offer, as La Plagne...
...Hel-loooo, my dear friends," flutes the voice. Blowing kisses, fluttering his large, bony fingers and rolling his eyes, Tiny Tim skips onstage like Bea Lillie in drag: shoulder-length locks, tattersall sports jacket decorated with a sheriff's badge, plaid shirt and orange socks. He always carries a copy of the New Testament and lugs a soiled brown shop ping bag in which he always keeps such talismans as a dime-store compact (he uses pale Elizabeth Arden foundation makeup), two notebooks containing the lyrics of 500 songs, and, of course, his "dear, sweet" ukulele...
...twelve combined championships. Last year he shattered all previous records by entering 32 races and winning 23. In a sport where victory or defeat is usually a matter of split seconds, his winning margins were all but incredible: almost two seconds in the special slalom at Kitzbühel, Austria, three seconds in the downhill at Megève, France. With the maximum possible score of 225 points, he skied off with the World Cup, the supreme trophy of the sport...
When the researchers injected Hel-RNA into mice and then gave the animals a second injection of a normally fatal dose of an encephalitis virus, 73% of the animals survived, as against only 3% of unprotected mice. The score was still better when the RNA preparation was put into the animals' noses and they were exposed to a pneumonia virus: 90% survived, whereas every one of the unprotected comparison group of mice died...
...substances containing proteins. None worked. Then they took two groups of nucleic acid components. Alone, neither of these had worked, but when they were combined in what turned out to be a multi-stranded RNA, the protective effect for infected mice was about the same as that conferred by HeL...