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...roughly two-thirds and was holding at around 500. Student activities had been slashed to nothing. The newspaper was gone. The library--whose special collections hold not only the works of DuBois but those of celebrated Black Achievers William Dawson, Marcus Garvey, W.C. Handy, Charles S. Johnson, John Mercer Langston, Aaron Douglas, Langston Hughes--was stretched so thin that in the periodicals section you would be lucky to find a well-worn Ebony and a month-old newsmagazine that someone had snatched from a dentist's office...
...seemed more a mannequin than a man. The 42-year-old heroin addict was bent over and twisted, drooling and unable to speak; almost every muscle was immobilized. No one knew what to make of his condition, so a call went out for Dr. J. William Langston, the hospital's chief neurologist. Langston took one look and was amazed. Carillo's symptoms suggested that he had been suffering for at least a decade from Parkinson's disease, a nervous system disorder that causes tremors and a gradual loss of mobility. But that hardly seemed plausible: Parkinson's rarely strikes anyone...
With help from colleagues at Stanford University, where he teaches, Langston located Lopez and had her hospitalized. A tip from a neurologist in Watsonville, 30 miles away, led him to two more cases: a pair of brothers, both addicts in their 20s, with advanced Parkinson's symptoms. By now Langston was alarmed. He called a press conference to announce that bad heroin was on the streets; he urged that anyone suffering from stiffness and tremors come forward. The appeal uncovered three more cases...
...recalled the 1977 case of a Maryland graduate student who had developed Parkinson's symptoms after injecting himself with a home-brewed opiate. The student had been trying to produce MPPP, a substance similar to the pain-killer Demerol, but had accidentally created a related chemical called MPTP. Langston asked Stanford University Chemist Ian Irwin to test the samples for the drug. Sure enough, MPTP was there...
...Stoddard relieved Mark Langston (1-1) in the eighth and balked home a run. The Mariners led 4-3 in the fifth when, with the bases loaded, Al Davis and Pat Putnam hit RBI grounders...