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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Princess Daisy, Krantz (6) 7. The Ninja, Lustbader (8) 8. The Origin, Stone 9. The Spike, De Borchgrave & Moss (5) 10. The Fifth Horseman, Collins & Lapierre
...origin of the disease remains unknown. Since brothers and sisters of the victims almost never become ill, the ailment does not appear to be contagious. Says Kawasaki: "It could be a virus or some other microorganism. Because of the preponderance of cases among Japanese, it may have some ethnic and hereditary cause triggered by some new factor in the environment...
James Moriarty, a University of San Diego marine archaeologist, identifies it as a so-called messenger stone, probably of ancient Chinese origin. Such a stone could be sent sliding down an anchor chain, via the hole, to strip away accumulations of seaweed. Another stony relic, discov ered five years ago off Los Angeles by two sports divers, Wayne Baldwin and Robert Miestrell, also hints at an early Chinese presence. To Moriarty and his assistant, Archaeologist Larry Pierson, it looks very much like the type of mill stone known to have been used by Chinese sailors as anchors...
This summer, the Statue of Liberty national monument is displaying a photographic exhibit prepared by eight institute members with $36,000 in grants from the New York State Council on the Arts and the Council for the Humanities. Its theme: varied places of origin of U.S. immigrants in the 19th century...
...fact, some people seem to have a heavy emotional investment in continuing their pain, which is quite real to the patient, even if it is of psychosomatic origin. Explains Dr. John Bonica of the University of Washington in Seattle, co-founder of the first major pain-relief clinic in the U.S.: "Take the case of a middle-aged lady who has been married for about 20 years and whose children are grown and have left home. She has an emotional need for love and affection, but her husband is always busy with his work. One day this lady falls...