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...verbal pep pills: "Good morning. I have a message for you. It's that God gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life." Moments later, the ballet of death begins again as white screens wheel and circle to shield in final decorum the bed of a dying patient...
...mere 5 ft. 5 in. but weighing 170 Ibs., Herron has earned the nickname Mini-Mack from suddenly rabid New England fans, and new respect from befuddled opponents. "I realize it's a big man's game," says Herron. "I use the big linemen as a shield. I stay real low, lower than I really am, so the defense don't know where...
...small but growing crew of public-minded lawyers are trying to change all that. Perhaps their most important innovation is prepaid legal insurance along the lines of Blue Shield. Already, some 2,500 organizations round the country are experimenting with group plans. Students at the University of Massachusetts, for example, pay an annual fee and are now eligible for legal help in handling problems ranging from marijuana busts to landlord-and-tenant quarrels. In Columbus, Ohio, members of Local 423 of the Laborers' International Union can get everything from divorces and wills to real estate closings paid...
...more widespread future emissions problem: nitrogen oxides from the SST. During the 1971 debate that led to the cutting off of U.S. Government funds for the supersonic transport, environmentalists had voiced fears that nitrogen oxides in the exhaust of the 1,800-m.p.h. aircraft might weaken the ozone shield that protects the earth from an overdose of the sun's ultraviolet rays. The charge was serious, but was it true? The U.S. Department of Transportation commissioned researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to find out. After two years of study, M.I.T.'s experimental evidence indicates that...
...Anglo-French Concorde and two Soviet TU-144s are now flying-most aviation experts predict that at least 500 SSTs will be in service by the end of the century. If they all fly, the researchers warn, the nitrogen oxides generated would have a thinning effect on the ozone shield. Without this critical protection, people would run a much higher risk of going blind and of contracting skin cancer...