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...complete record on his plastic microchip dog tag, [July 25], I am appalled at what could happen if a G.I. were captured. The enemy would be able to read the information with his own computer, thereby leaving the soldier unprotected and destroying the doctrine of "name, rank and serial number...
...five weeks old and thus far ranks among the least buoyant of the soaps: No. 11 of 13 last week. But a new entry needs time, often as much as two years, to find both a following and a rhythm. ABC is not worried. Nixon has had a successful serial on TV five days a week, every week, for the past 27 years...
...that is alien to itself. Running off to the stars may be far simpler than exploring the black holes of human nature. Percy illustrates this best in a slice of imaginative speculation about four astronauts on an 18-year interstellar flight. The crew, three women and a man, practice "serial monogamy" and procreate. The 186,000-mile-per-second speed law is in effect, so nearly two decades in space amount to more than 400 years on earth. The astrofamily returns to find the home planet ruined by old nuclear wars and the survivors barely able to reproduce. But basic...
...National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute. Studies have shown that Type A's respond differently to stress than do calmer people classified as Type B's. When Dr. Redford Williams at Duke University asked a group of male undergraduates to perform a mental arithmetic task (serial subtraction of 13 from 7,683), the Type A students produced 40 times as much cortisol and four times as much epinephrine as their Type B classmates. The flow of blood to their muscles was three times as great, though there was no difference in their level of performance. "The Type...
...saga sometimes sounds like a comic book or a children's TV serial, magnified a thousand times over, it is no accident. Lucas grew up on both. His father George Sr., who owned a prosperous stationery store in Modesto, was a rigorous man who tried to teach his son and three daughters the old-fashioned virtues: early to bed, early to rise; be true to yourself; work hard, be frugal. His father was convinced that the son paid no attention. "He never listened to me," says George Sr. "He was his mother's pet. If he wanted...