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...have found that the state's farmers run much higher risks than urban dwellers of developing and dying from six types of cancer. Analyzing the death certificates of more than 20,000 white male lowans, Dr. Leon Burmeister and his colleagues found that prostate, stomach, lymph gland and lip cancer, as well as leukemia and multiple myeloma (a form of bone marrow cancer), occurred up to three times more frequently among farmers...
Burmeister, associate professor of preventive medicine and environmental health, cannot explain the higher incidences among farmers, but concedes they may be somehow related to farming demands and practices. The cause of lip cancer, which was three times more common among farmers than their city brethren, seems obvious. Explains Burmeister: "We could say with a fair amount of confidence that it is probably related to sun exposure. But for the others, particularly prostatic cancer, we don't really know." He speculates that leukemia may be related to dairy farming or to corn raising. "It is certainly something worth pursuing...
...work in overalls and roller, cursing the Jews and grumbling to himself about politics. Hitler as Chaplin, entertainer. Hitler's face is mocked: the haircut and moustache, his trademarks. Anyone can wear that face--like kindergarten games, drawing the hair over the forehead and the tufted whiskers above the lip on pictures of people in magazines; yes, anyone can look like Adolph Hitler--he is the common man playing out his most banal fantasies. And, the film implies, anyone with the will can be Adolph Hitler. Hitler is climactically embodied by an actor in lengthy monologue, dressed in the togas...
...that to the deaf. Yet Sarah (Phyllis Frelich), the heroine of this play, who was born deaf, believes that silence is a magic realm of treasure in which her mind can richly imagine sounds. She is so stubborn in this belief that she has refused to learn how to lip-read or attempt to speak, although she is fluent in the use of sign language. At 26, she works as a cleaning maid in a speech-therapy dorm, although tests indicate that she is capable of college work...
...acre estate carrying a .32-cal. Harrington and Richardson revolver in a box. She told police that she and Tarnower had a violent argument in his bedroom. "Get out! You're crazy!" he shouted at her. They struggled. Harris was severely bruised on her upper lip and left arm, and Tarnower was shot four times...