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...ESAU & JACOB, by Machado de Assis. Rio de Janeiro in the last decade of the 19th century is presented to the reader with a dated but delectable use of hyperbole, metaphor and epigram...
...killer, diuretic, tranquilizer, a reliever of burns and sprains - besides being a wondrous solvent that enables other drugs to penetrate the skin and alleviate conditions as varied as crippling arthritis and athlete's foot. The surgeon who discovered DMSO's medicinal properties in 1963, Dr. Stanley W. Jacob, 41, of the University of Oregon, says extravagantly that it has other possible uses too fantastic to disclose. The highly purified, medicinal form of DMSO is not yet on the prescription market, but pain-racked arthritis victims have been paying $3.50 an ounce for bootlegged crude commercial DMSO, which...
...ESAU AND JACOB, by Machado de Assis. Rio de Janeiro in the last decade of the 19th century is presented to the reader with a dated but delectable use of hyperbole, metaphor and epigram...
This time, Dirksen was reasonably confident that he had the votes. He counted Connecticut Democrat Thomas Dodd for sure and possibly New York Republican Jacob Javits as well. If Dirksen thought he had a deal, so did the Senate's liberals who understood that they could get their immigration bill cleared as soon as a vote-any vote-had been taken on reapportionment...
...ESAU & JACOB by Machado de Assis. 287 pages. University of California...