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...revolves around the activities of one Brother Jeroboam, a self-proclaimed prophet of the Lord and small-time religious hustler. Soyinka, a Yoruba playwright, novelist and poet who spent three years in a Nigerian prison for alleged subversion during the tragic Biafran civil war, puts broad satirical strokes and rapid-fire dialogue to clever use to parody the frailties of the human race...
...Amnesty International has been instrumental in arousing international public awareness of, and opposition to political repression, the sad fact is that this growing awareness has been accompanied by the even more rapid institutionalization of repressive measures--particularly torture--on a world-wide scale. In recent years Amnesty International investigators have documented the systematic use of torture by governments in roughly 60 nations, and have received unconfirmed reports of torture in many others...
Lindsley praised Captain Sarah Robinson for "keeping the team together and Sullivan for setting a rapid pace for the team." Coach Hunt lauded the team's spirit and said "no one is by herself on this club." The next match is a tri-meet against Dartmouth and MIT, Friday at Franklin Park...
...dismal scientists were, for once, overly optimistic about the national scene, anticipating a 4 per cent rate of inflation over the long run. Harvard's costs are rising at a much more rapid rate. The committee is reconsidering how much of the endowment's income to spend yearly and how much to re-invest for future needs...
...Third, rapid and inexpensive tests have been developed in recent years to measure the capacity of chemicals to induce mutations in bacteria. Of the chemicals that have been tested in one microbial system, 90 per cent of those that scored positive for mutagenicity were also found to induce tumors when studied in animals. In light of this high correlation between mutagenicity and carcinogenicity, test systems for mutagenicity are being used increasingly to identify potentially toxic substances early in product development. Recent reports do indicate that saccharin-containing products produce mutations in test systems...