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President and Chief Operating Officer: N. J. Nicholas Jr...
...whales that had been trapped in the ice off Point Barrow, Alaska. Sensing that their escape was at hand, the whales, nicknamed Putu (Ice Hole) and Siku (Ice), swam out of their icy prison into the slush-filled channel, cheered on by more than 100 spectators. Said Arnold Brower Jr., a local whaling captain: "I feel like my burden is lifted...
...twice as high for women who undergo repeat caesareans, and infants are at increased risk for respiratory problems and distress caused by anesthesia given to the mother. On balance, the benefits of vaginal deliveries after C-sections have long outweighed the advantages of surgical births. Says R. Harold Holbrook Jr., director of maternal-fetal medicine at the Stanford Medical Center: "It's been clearly proved that it's safe to have a natural birth after having a caesarean section...
...this argument, but American elections are never quite the low-risk Tweedledee-vs.-Tweedledum contests they sometimes appear to be. It is sobering to recall that even the landmark struggle between Kennedy and Nixon was once widely belittled as an echo, not a choice. As Kennedy partisan Arthur Schlesinger Jr. wrote at the time, "The favorite cliche of 1960 is that the candidates . . . are essentially the same sort of men, stamped from the same mold, committed to the same values, dedicated to the same objectives...
...every day one gets to cut the Soviet Union in half," mused the National Geographic Society's chief cartographer, John Garver Jr. Indeed, on the new map of the world that the society is sending its 11 million members, the Soviet Union has lost 18 million sq. mi. -- more than two-thirds of the territory it appeared to encompass on the National Geographic's maps for the past half-century. The diminution, to be sure, is only on paper, but to millions of map readers the world over, perception is reality. And that reality is about to be changed...