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...children. Even those who recover uneventfully can be painfully reminded of the disease in adulthood by shingles. The chickenpox virus is a member of the herpes family of viruses that can lie dormant along nerves for decades and be suddenly reactivated, possibly by stress or injury. Says Virologist Stanley Plotkin of the University of Penn sylvania: "Shingles causes severe, insane pain in one in 10,000 Americans a year...
...have yet to determine. In the forests of Gahan and Cameroon, restriction recently discovered 17 previously un described species of tree. Over three fourths of all plant species exist in tropical forests, which have been described as "genetic reservoirs." As article in the current issueof New Scientist by Mark Plotkin and Richard Schyles, director of the Harvard Botanical Museum, notes that "conservative estimates put the member of plant and animal species in rain forests at about two million of which fewer than half have ever been described by scientists...
...scrutinizing Latin American forests, Plotkin and schultes have found over 1000 plants that can be used as foods, drugs or industrial materials. Medical uses range from contraceptives to cures for skin infection, and one edible plant is apparently "as good a source of protein as meat and better than say beans," the researchers...
Estimated price: $400,000. Larry Plotkin, owner of a lumberyard, has handed over $32,000 for a street he plans to use as a parking lot. Mayor Tatangelo, up for reelection, is ecstatic: "Anything that's good gets you votes, and this idea is definitely good." Even the city engineers are happy. The street maps, they say, needed updating anyway...
Recltal--Martin Plotkin, violin, and Ronald Epstein, harpslchord; music of Bach, Couperin and Fontana; Holmes Concert Hall, North House...