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...found to cause cancer in mice, and they show a bewildering variety of behavior. Some are clearly inherited. One is passed on from generation to generation in mouse-mothers' milk, so daughter mice develop breast cancer. A male mouse may be a healthy carrier of this virus and infect a female with which he is mated...
...keep our nose to our knitting." Barnaby growled. "Teams that get overconfident are teams that don't win championships." But it Barnaby hopes to infect the Crimson team with doubt, he was not noticeably aided by the Cornell match...
...this year's budget hearings in Washington, the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover said that the Communists are now most busy trying to infect the minds of American youth with such late-blooming Red publications as New Horizons for Youth, launched in New York two years ago, and Communist Viewpoint, a newsletter born last month that circulates modestly among U.S. colleges. Like the rest, they are pretty anemic-looking stuff...
Coconuts & Canoes. Filariasis infects some 190 million people in the tropics. In the Pacific it is contracted from the bite of a mosquito, which deposits microscopic juvenile forms of a nematode, Wuchereria bancrofti, in the skin. In the human victim, the roundworms mature to a length of 1½ in. to 3 in. They live and multiply almost exclusively in lymph nodes, especially the big nodes in the arm pits, groin and scrotum. Their tiny offspring are picked up from a victim's bloodstream by a feeding mosquito-soon to infect another victim...
...awakened millions of illiterate Saudis to the world beyond their desert peninsula. Nowadays, anti-Saud pamphlets are appearing on the desks of civil servants and army officers throughout the country. In addition, hundreds of young, well-to-do Saudis, many of them schooled in the U.S., return home to infect the rising generation with a yearning for modern life. Faced by these pressures, Saud is slowly responding. To outsiders, progress is almost imperceptible; for Saudi Arabia, any change is significant...