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With five minutes gone in the final quarter, Mygatt again played a part in a Cat goal, this time setting up Karl Langmuir for a shot over the middle. Suddenly, Harvard's advantage had dwindled...
...more exotic explanation was posed in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1985 by Dr. Alexander Langmuir, formerly chief epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. Thucydides' description, Langmuir theorized, fit the criteria for influenza complicated by toxic shock syndrome. And although this peculiar combination of ailments had never been observed by modern physicians, Langmuir predicted that "Thucydides syndrome," as he called it, "may reappear," perhaps as part of some future epidemic of influenza...
...cases occurred during a major influenza outbreak in Minnesota in the winter of 1985-86. One occurred in Roanoke, Va., and an eleventh case, in Oregon, has since been reported to the CDC. Like the Athenian scourge, the two-part illness was lethal: six of the patients died. Langmuir says the apparent fulfillment of his prophecy had him "blown over like a feather...
...paneled conference room overlooking a leafy courtyard. The program goes by the acronym of TEAM, which stands for Trend Evaluation and Monitoring. TIME Correspondent Michael Moritz last week became the first reporter ever permitted to attend an SRI brain-storming session. His report: hat in the world are Langmuir Blodgett films?" asked Beth Hiseler, senior office assistant. The question stumped her 17 colleagues for a few moments, but the discussion leaped to life when Chemical Engineer Russell Phillips explained that the name refers not to some new foreign movie director but rather to thin layers of organic matter that might...
Within a couple of months, SRI's thoughts on Langmuir Blodgett films will probably be discussed in Scan, a tightly written bimonthly summary of the SRI meetings. Some 475 U.S. and foreign corporations pay $12,000 yearly to subscribe to SRI's business intelligence program and to receive the eight-page Scan reports. The next issue of the pamphlet is also likely to contain articles on competition from Japan, the economic and social implications of the "information society," and the growing public antagonism about violent crimes by youth...