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Roar. Rattle. Bump-bump-bump. Bee-eep beep. Clang. Rat-tat-tat. The illuminated sign at a Nishi-Ginza intersection in downtown Tokyo blinks a tentative 80, then flashes to 82. Red light. Screech! North-south traffic stops. The number blinks: 81, 79, 78. Ready, eastwest? Engines whine. Clutches out. Getaway! Flash goes the sign: 79, 81, 82-84!-See THE WORLD, The Fresh Start...
Roar. Rattle. Bump-bump-bump. Bee-eep beep. Clang. Rat-tat-tat. The illuminated sign at a Nishi-Ginza intersection in downtown Tokyo blinks a tentative 80, then flashes...
...Englebert Dunphy, the university's chief of surgery, had to spend all his time explaining what his researchers had not meant to do, rather than what they accomplished-which was to satisfy themselves that hormones combined with radioactive phosphorus would slow or stop the growth of some rat tumors...
...these drugs for good reason, and to discontinue their use arbitrarily would cause untold hardship, if not outright tragedy," said Dr. Dunphy. "All of us must be entirely responsible in reporting any information on the subject. Such information must be kept in context and in perspective." To keep the rat studies in perspective, cancer experts reminded their colleagues that rat cancers do not necessarily behave the same as human cancers, and there is even evidence that in some cases they react in a way that is exactly the opposite to human cancers under the same hormone treatment...
...house of male prostitution originally financed by the novelist. From the servants' recollections, Sachs draws a picture of "an unknown Marcel Proust of the great, terrible depths," whose sadism led him to butcher shops where he watched calves being slaughtered and who once had a rat brought to him so that he could stab it to death with a hatpin. Proust, says Sachs, was "a kind of monster child, whose mind had all the experiences of a man, and whose soul was ten years...