Word: normale
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Gordon Zubrod reported that by the time a leukemia patient is ill enough for his disease to be diagnosed, he usually has 1012 (or 1 trillion) leukemic cells in his blood. His physician must try to kill all these abnormal cells without killing or damaging too many of the normal cells. In the trade, said Dr. Zu brod, each factor of ten in that trillion cells is called a log, and in the first few years after Dr. Farber introduced methotrexate treatment, doctors found that they could knock off one or at most two logs, or zeros, from the cell...
...three years or more. A few patients have done still better, reported Sloan-Kettering's Dr. Joseph H. Burchenal. He knows of 87 children and 16 adults who are alive five years after first diagnosis, with no detectable disease. Indeed, 29 of them have lived comfortable and normal lives for at least five years since their last treatment; ten of these have gone on for ten years, and five...
...output 70% over the past five years, but has had to limit its customers to 90% of their usual orders. Only two weeks ago, second-ranked Texas Gulf Sulphur (nearly 3,000,000 tons) began telling its buyers that they would have to settle for just 75% of their normal quotas during the next three months. It appears that the relatively sudden squeeze has caught almost everyone by surprise. "Like the toothpaste ads say," comments one Commerce Department official, "we wonder where the yellow went...
...spectator on four sides. Three of them are dark, oak-framed panels on which are painted the small robed figures of judge, jury, prosecuting and defending attorneys. The juridical figures are fitted out with identical, froglike ceramic masks. Only the spectators, on the fourth wall, have a variety of normal human faces. In the center of the courtroom stands an ordinary old-fashioned oaken chair. "I want to make a bridge between the spectator and the event," says Friedensohn, "but an indeterminate one. I want him to think, 'Shall...
...parallels between the violence of the academy and life in Hitler's Germany -as when Torless rather ponderously testifies at a school-board inquiry into Basini's death that "there is no boundary between a good world and an evil world: they run together and very normal people can spread terror." Otherwise, Young Torless, adapted from the novel by Robert Musil, is a perfect-and perfectly chilling-evocation of the underside of a vanished...