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...play of veterans Kathy Batter and Julie Brynteson meshed well with the efforts of a myriad of newcomers, most notably freshwomen Sue St. Louis, Gia Johnson and Sara Fisher. The program is well...
Medicine. Through its myriad glands-and the hormones they secrete into the bloodstream-the endocrine system acts as a kind of bodily Mission Control, regulating a variety of functions, from growth to sexual activity. The three winners of the prize in physiology or medicine helped unravel the mysteries of that system-and pointed to dramatic new ways of controlling it when it goes awry...
...COURSE, HIRSCH would have a hard time convincing a lot of poor people in industrial societies that what they really want is the status and not the material good itself. One doesn't see much glamour in transportation, decent nutrition, heating and a myriad of other needed goods. It is much easier for someone who lacks nothing or very little to say that material goods themselves do not breed happiness...
Charles de Gaulle wore them. So did Impressionist Claude Monet and myriad others. Their glasses, as thick as Coke-bottle bottoms, were and still generally are the unmistakable emblem of millions of people who have undergone surgery for removal of cataracts-clouded lenses of the eyes. Of the 400,000 patients who had such operations last year, the majority were 65 or older. Most now wear the distinctive-and somewhat unflattering-spectacles. But more than 50,000 of them have no need for special glasses; they have undergone a controversial new procedure-the implanting in the eye of a tiny...
...practically a private holding company itself. St. Joe controls a score of paper mills and boxmaking plants in the U.S., Britain and Ireland, two profitable railroads, the Florida East Coast and the Apalachicola Northern, and owns 23% of Charter Co., a Jacksonville-based conglomerate that is in myriad undertakings from gasoline refining to planning a model city for the Shah of Iran. In building the estate, Ball also made a string of profitable investments for himself. His personal wealth is about $50 million much of it derived from his huge individual interest in the repetitively named Florida National Banks...