Word: occurance
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When that happens -- and the timetable calls for the changeover to occur in about nine months -- Israeli security forces will pull out of the main cities and towns, though they will remain in the West Bank to guard the borders, the main roads and the Jewish settlements. A "strong" Palestinian police force of several thousand, armed with pistols and rifles, will be created from P.L.O. units now taking special training in Jordan and Egypt. "I think this agreement is going to wear well," concludes William Quandt, the Carter Administration's chief Middle East expert, now at the Brookings Institution. "There...
...Researchers have developed the prototype for what could be the first simple test for Alzheimer's disease. Evidently, some of the same chemical changes that occur in the diseased brain cells of Alzheimer's patients also take place in their skin. This means that it may someday be possible to diagnose the affliction with a skin test rather than a much more invasive brain biopsy...
Perhaps the unlikeliest stage event of the decade will occur next month in ye olde and quainte Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario. The tourist haven's Shaw Festival, one of North America's bigger and better theaters and the world's most faithful keeper of the flame for the white-bearded windbag of Fabian socialism, is sponsoring a debate premised on the heretical idea that its patron dramatist should be outranked as a playwright by his colleague Harley Granville Barker. Although recalled chiefly as producer (The Doctor's Dilemma), director (Major Barbara) or actor (Man and Superman) of many Shavian...
...into Reitha's pregnancy, the Wheatfield, Indiana, couple learned through an ultrasound test that she was carrying Siamese, or conjoined, twins. Such cases are rare; they happen when a fertilized egg splits incompletely during early cell division. About 40 such sets of twins -- or 1 in 50,000 births -- occur in the U.S. each year. Few of the pairs live long enough for separation to be considered. The Lakebergs' doctors had put the likelihood of one twin surviving at no more than 20% and suggested an abortion...
...makes no difference in the cases where the thief is after the driver's belongings more than the car. "The consensus would be that carjacking is a crime of opportunity," says Charlie J. Parsons, special agent in charge of the Los Angeles office of the FBI. "Most of them occur within 15 seconds, and it's not a situation where the perpetrator stakes out the victim for several days and plans the crime. They're standing on a street corner, and there's someone with the windows down, and they're vulnerable, and bam! -- it happens...