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When doctors confronted with chlamydial symptoms mistakenly prescribe penicillin, the usual treatment for gonorrhea, or order the drugs most commonly used for urinary-tract infections, the chlamydial infection rages on. Repeated doses of the antibiotics tetracycline or erythromycin over a period of one week are required to knock...
With the '84 election out of the way, many strong contenders are coming out of the closet, leading observers to believe that the Democratic primary race will be a knock-down, drag-out battle between the region's heaviest heavies...
Buddy Teevens, the starting Dartmouth quarterback, had convinced a freshman to place a beer cup on his head, the idea being that Buddy would try and knock the plastic cup off by throwing a beer keg at it. It turned out that Buddy was better at throwing footballs than kegs--much better. Buddy missed and the poor freshman spent the rest of the night in the clinic, a not-uncommon consequence of the sport popularly known as William Tell...
State Department moderates are advocating a giant swap with the Soviets. They would use Star Wars as a bargaining chip, offering to shelve it in return for deep cuts in the Soviets' heavy land-based missiles. They maintain that the U.S. cannot hope to build a defense that would knock out every Soviet missile before it struck the U.S. The Soviets, they fear, would simply rush to build more and more sophisticated missiles to saturate U.S. defenses, pushing the arms race into a volatile new phase. For the moment, the superpowers have informally agreed to practice "interim restraint" while groping...
...family portraits and decorated Christmas trees in both of his elegant offices. Nancy Reagan has shaded the private quarters in her favorite yellows and peaches, and state entertaining is a pageantry of grace and beauty. The gray squirrels come up to the windows of the Oval Office and knock when the President has not gone to Camp David for the weekend and brought back acorns to leave for them on the porch...