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While you sit there drinking your orange juice and getting nauseous over the scrambled eggs running inexorably off your plate onto the floor, the coach of the Harvard women's swim team is sitting down to dinner somewhere in Leningrad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Getting an Early Jump on the Spring Vacation... ...By Managing in Russia... ...Or by Swimming in Rome | 3/22/1977 | See Source »

...September 8, a crew of 120 farm workers picking grapes on a ranch in Madera County began suffering the effects of severe pesticide poisoning. Weakened and nauseous, they staggered from the field in search of medical aid. They had been poisoned by a chemical known as Torak, an insecticide so powerful that health codes forbid workers to re-enter a field within 30 days of its use. A subsequent investigation has shown that Madera workers had been brought in to harvest as early as nine days after the initial spraying. . . . The effects of pesticide poisoning are severe, but treatable. State...

Author: By Susan Redlich, | Title: La Lucha Continua | 3/1/1977 | See Source »

...supper, I'm already nauseous and I haven't even gotten my tray. Chicken cutlets (I can't say what they remind me of) or Vienna loaf, or, why moving off-campus might not be such a bad idea after all. Too many green things in the former, and if you've achoired (get it, a + choir) a taste for the latter then you also probably like the beer at Father's Six. And the fricassee sause had bumps...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Food For Thought, Not Consumption | 1/19/1977 | See Source »

Then again, you might get scared that there are people reading the magazine seriously. You might get nauseous when you see a picture of a man's head caved in. You might also worry that people are actually sending for the advertised posters of naked women fondling submachine guns...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Grim Business at the Newsstand | 1/13/1977 | See Source »

...really, you ask, how bad is the ice surface? Why it's so bad that despite the gallant efforts of the zamboni man, who circled the arena enough times prior to the opening face-off to make a grown man nauseous, the ice still remained the color of clothes that aren't washed with Borax--in front of one net, there was a shotput circle, to the right of the other, the landing area for a long jump...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Last-Minute Escape | 11/30/1976 | See Source »

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