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...Cambridge St. overpass--When Harvard built the overpass connecting the Yard to the Science Center and donated the resulting tunnel to the city, Cambridge thought it was getting a break. But once the tunnel started to crack and leak, causing maintenance headaches and traffic problems, they weren't so sure...
...staffs. At this party, Dr. Peter Bourne, Carter's adviser on health and drug issues, was seen doing cocaine. Six months later, angered by what he felt was a betrayal by Bourne on the paraquat issue (the U.S.-financed poisonous spraying of Mexican marijuana later shipped to America), Stroup leaked an account of the cocaine incident to Jack Anderson. Bourne was then under investigation for writing a phony Quaalude prescription, and the Stroup leak was all that was needed to give Bourne the heave-ho. Stroup had succeeded in one stroke in destroying NORML's influence with the Carter Administration...
Businessmen have been wary of the Sandinistas since the leak last year of something called the 72-hour document. This clandestine paper described how a Marxist regime should tolerate a private sector only until the government was able to take over the economy and throw the capitalists out. Confiscations of land and factories by the government suggested to many business leaders that the Sandinistas took the document seriously...
Normally sperm are conveyed toward the outside of the body through ducts, the vasa deferentia. In a vasectomy, the ducts are cut, but sperm continue to be manufactured. With the exit passage blocked, the sperm break down and leak into surrounding tissue and possibly into the bloodstream, where they are recognized as "foreign" and attacked by antibodies. Alexander and Clarkson postulate that the resultant sperm-antibody complexes injure the artery walls and accelerate formation of atherosclerotic plaques...
...would have reason to embarrass Percy in this fashion? And why? The Times was not about to tell its readers. But Times Reporter Bernard Weinraub was more scrupulous than journalists usually are in such cases. He indicated that the leak had not come from Ambassador Watson or the State Department, but from the Republican transition team, some of whose members ardently oppose SALT. Weinraub even listed six members of the transition team most dismayed by Percy's performance. Two days later the Washington Star identified one of the six-John Carbaugh, an aide to North Carolina's archconservative...