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Common Cause. Toxoplasmosis is one of the most widespread and least understood diseases. Best estimates are that one person in three has or has had the infection, making a worldwide total of a round billion. The microbe responsible is a minute animal (protozoon) called Toxoplasma gondii. How it gets into the human body is, or was, unclear. Once there, it may cause no significant illness, so that countless people have antibody against Toxoplasma, although they have no recollection of having had a related illness...
...secretary said tickets could be purchased by mail or in person at the ticket office, but with the game two days off, there doesn't seem to be any chance to arrive in Princeton with ticket in hand...
Cleaver has a deliberate control of words which he drops on the page like little bits of acid. "The policeman and the soldier will violate your person, smoke you out with various gases. Each will shoot you, beat your head and body with sticks and clubs, with rifle butts, run you through with bayonets, shoot holes in your flesh, kill...
...usual attrition processes have failed; most of those freshmen pre-meds are still with it. Add to them the number who normally decide, while here, to go into medicine, and you have about 225. Stack on top of that about 50 who have felt the zeitgeist, in the person of affable General Hershey, breathing down their necks, and you have 275. Since it usually takes at least two years to finish the pre-med requirements, the full impact of revoking other graduate school deferments could not be felt until this year...
...Trout, Bowen's eighth novel, is typical of her writing and unlike anything else being published today. Once more the author concerns herself with the domination of the strong by the weak; "they have such incredible staying power," one character laments. Eva is the formless, feckless person who flouts the schemes and designs of subtler minds. At 25, she is an heiress. Her mother died in a plane crash; her father, a homosexual tycoon, was a suicide. Her guardian was her father's partner in business and in bed. He alternately tries to manipulate her for her money...