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...activist, pragmatic diplomacy. After 12 years of xenophobic isolationism, China is increasingly behaving like a global superpower, exchanging state visits, forging agreements, cajoling, arguing, and sometimes berating other nations around the world. Last week alone, while Keng was flying around the Caribbean, Vice Foreign Minister Han Nien-lung was resuming long-stalled talks with Japanese officials about a peace treaty. Meanwhile Peking dispatched delegations of electrical engineers to the U.S., canoeists to Yugoslavia, educators to Sri Lanka, economists to Zambia, parachutists to Canada, physicians to the Central African Empire. In addition, a team of crack Chinese players left for France...
...Arthur W. Nienhus of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute wrote an editorial in the journal claiming: "This is the first direct examination of the gene. The power of the technique is extraordinary, but the actual execution of it, once mastered, is not terribly difficult...
...nitrite, smell a bit like burning rubber, and the effect is intense and brief - lightheadedness and a sudden rush that makes the heart race and the body quiver. But the chemical's aftereffects can be most unpleasant: headaches, nausea, heart attacks and, with chronic use, possible liver and lung damage...
...girl's training need not be less vigorous than a boy's. Dr. Barbara Drinkwater, a research physiologist at the University of California's Institute of Environmental Stress, found that prepubertal girls are precisely the same as boys in cardio-respiratory (heart-lung) endurance capacity. Parents who worry about their young daughters overtaxing tender hearts while turning a fast 440 should realize that the human machine is designed to shut down -through leg cramps, side stitches, and dizziness-if the strain is too severe...
...Occupational Safety and Health Administration insisted that textile plants install elaborate ventilation and dust-control systems to reduce cotton dust, which causes brown lung, an occupational asthma that afflicts from 2,300 (by industry estimate) to 35,000 (by OSHA estimate) of the nation's 233,000 cotton textile workers. But the Council on Wage and Price Stability calculated that the bill for the industry would be $625 million for new equipment plus $200 million in annual costs to meet the OSHA standards. Alarmed, Carter's inflation fighters, led by Chief Economic Adviser Charles Schultze, opposed OSHA...