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Whatever the origin of her life's impulse, Carry began obeying it in Kansas in 1899 when she was 52. The state was then legally dry. Liquor could be dispensed only for "medical, scientific and mechanical" purposes-an injunction liberally interpreted by the cafes, drugstores and Blind Tigers of the time. After remarrying a kind of jack-of-all professions named David Nation, who was occasionally a lawyer, doctor, journalist and innkeeper and chronically a failure, Carry went on the warpath. Commencing in the town of Medicine Lodge, Carry's hatchet proceeded to enforce the letter...
...answer, Dr. Schroeder offered chemical analyses of 400 human kidneys showing that Americans at birth have a negligible amount of cadmium stored there, that the amount of the metal increases gradually with age and reaches its highest levels in patients with high blood pressure of unknown origin. He did not have to remind his medical audience that kidney function is important in regulating blood pressure, and that many cases of high blood pressure are clearly associated with kidney disorders...
...Sister Ann's illegitimate daughter. As Kruse's niece, Eugenia was clearly his primary heir. But was she alive? And if so, where? Further detective work in ancient adoption records located Eugenia. She was the adopted daughter of a couple who had never revealed her origin; her first name had been changed to Rosemary, and she was married to "a prosperous businessman in a small town in Michigan...
...decorative, geometric art is still shown in Spain's intricate metalwork and cabinetry. The turn-of-the-century architect, Antoni Gaudi, resorted in his unfinished Church of the Holy Family in Barcelona to restless linear rhythms that recall the Moorish Alhambra. Andalusian laments still recall an Arab origin, and even the haunting cries of flamenco suit a caliph better than a king...
...nothing less than God's punishment for their sins. The Romans, who knew the same agricultural scourge, placed a special god in charge of it and prayed to him for mercy. In King Lear, Shakespeare blamed rust's presence on a "foul fiend" named Flibbertigibbet. Whatever its origin, the fungus is still thriving; its red, yellow and orange splotches on stems and leaves cause a grain-crop loss of hundreds of millions of dollars every year. And every time that modern agronomists breed a resistant grain, within a decade or so a new and devastating rust develops through...