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Snowdon has his own reasons to be anxious with this kind of work, and his nerves don't relax with the last click of the shutter. There is still the fear that the film might get lost, ruined by airport X rays, spoiled in the laboratory. Worst of all, there's "the dread of opening the brown envelope when the pictures come back. You know they are not going to be good. The only time you like a picture is before you see it." -By RichardLacayo. Reported by Bonnie Angelo/London
...lean way back in the chair. Rest your head and stretch out. Relax. Now get to work...
...nature fought back, however. War in Southeast Asia and political instability in countries like Idi Amin's Uganda interfered with eradication efforts. Premature reports of success against malaria led some health authorities to relax their vigilance. Then came the worst blows of all: in the mid-1960s, Plasmodium falciparum, the most lethal of the four species of parasite that cause human malaria, showed signs of becoming resistant to chloroquine. Soon there were resistant strains on three continents. About the same time, health officials around the Mediterranean began to find mosquitoes that were immune to DDT. It was a classic...
...said, "and for an Olympic event I feel they are important in light of the world's problems." Carpenter, who lives 30 from the Coliseum as the pigeon flies, a serious pigeon man. He keeps 400, spending $300 a month on feed. He thinks "men who have pigeons relax and cope better with business problems and family problems." His very home, he went on, was bought because pigeons did not defy local zoning laws and because, once he saw the grounds, "I thought this was the place to pursue pigeon excellence." This year that excellence found a place...
...some of the lecture rooms will have bumps of various shapes on the floor. I, as professor, will sit on one of these bumps, and on and among the others, like Gulliver among the breasts of the Brobdingnagian women, will sit my students. It is supposed to help them relax. . . Not long ago Rocky McBeth made a final application to the dean to purchase some old Royal Canadian Air Force parachutes. He wanted to hang them from the classroom ceilings to cover the windows. The aim was to help nervous students let themselves go and concentrate more fully...