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...fall, dozens of people in eastern Connecticut-both children and adults-have been stricken with these painful and puzzling symptoms, which often come in repeated episodes that last for weeks and even months at a stretch. At first, doctors suspected rheumatoid arthritis, a serious disease of still unknown origin that can permanently cripple the joints. Then, learning that almost all the victims lived in three adjoining towns along the Connecticut River-Lyme, Old Lyme and East Haddam (total population 12,000)-medical investigators from the Yale University School of Medicine came to a decidedly different conclusion. Because rheumatoid arthritis does...
...case of rheumatoid arthritis, some doctors suspect malfunctions of the immune system, perhaps triggered by viruses. Indeed, in recent years, researchers have linked at least four different kinds of arthritis in Africa, Asia and Australia to viruses apparently transmitted by mosquitoes. Other types of arthritis may be bacterial in origin or simply the result of stress at certain joints. In any case, the lack of a clear understanding of many of arthritis' manifestations has complicated treatment; everything from corticosteroids to copper bracelets and special diets has been tried by sufferers. But the most common-and sometimes the best-therapy...
Crimson: Can you tell us a little about the origin of Bursars cards...
Braudel's work did not emerge all at once, or by itself. Its origin dates back to 1929, when Historians Lucien Febvre and Marc Bloch founded a scholarly review in Paris called the Annales (Annals). Its tone was combative, its fervor evangelical. Its purpose: to debunk the chronicling of politics and biographies of great men that had obsessed historians since the 19th century. Let there be new approaches, Febvre exhorted, ranging from aerial photography to the study of climates...
Jaynes probably will not surrender his future books to the commercial instincts of a publishing house either, but with the success Origin is enjoying thus far his publisher would not mind. The book is already into a third printing and Houghton-Mifflin cannot keep up with orders for it, a solid indication that the tongue-twisting, technical-sounding title has not deterred many purchasers. Jaynes says he intends to follow his present work with a book on memory, then one proposing a new theory about dreams, and finally one on the consciousness of children. He adds that all of them...