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...miscalculation by the program's planners set back the whole campaign. Indian experts now laugh at the Nehru government's drive to control births through the rhythm method. Even then it was known that peasant women, because of their exhausting chores and lack of nourishment, usually have irregular menstrual cycles. Moreover, the colored beads that the government distributed to the peasants for keeping track of the days-green for "go" and red for "stop"-failed for the astonishing reason that many women never looked at them until the lights were out, and then the colors were indistinguishable...
...died-giving him proper treatment for a sudden heart ailment, pleading in vain that he go to a hospital. Neatly dressed in a dark suit, as professional in his manner as a medical-school lecturer, Coppolino even turned to the jury to give an onomatopoetic description of how irregular William Farber's heart had sounded...
...plywood box, tilted up from the floor. The box is empty and the work is untitled. Ellsworth Kelly, 43, otherwise a hard-edge painter of interest, displays an L-shaped item that dully fulfills its title, Blue White Angle. Paul Frazier, 44, represents himself with Space Manifold #5, an irregular cruciform abstraction that would kiss Rodin off as a sentimentalist...
...moon and most other solarsystem satellites, Triton moves in a retrograde direction: it circles the "wrong" way-clockwise-around Neptune which spins counterclockwise on its axis. Nereid, only about 200 miles in diameter, revolves in the direction of Neptune's spin, but its orbital path is highly irregular, swinging as far as 6,000,000 miles into space and as close as 900,000 miles from Neptune's surface...
...eight-hour pain-reliever, originally approved by a Cambridge drug-testing firm, has been taken off the market by the Food and Drug Administration. The FDA said the original tests were "irregular," and the manufacturer has been unable to prove the drug effective without those tests...