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...hospital. Pugliese and Pediatric Nutritionist Michelle Weyman-Daum reviewed the records of seven children, age seven months to 22 months, and found that the youngsters were all on low-fat, low-cholesterol diets and getting only 63% to 94% of the calories they needed. Parents typically substituted skim milk for whole, fed their toddlers lean meat and complex carbohydrates, and forbade eating between meals...
...Harpoon missile sank at least two Libyan patrol boats and fired on three other naval "targets" with uncertain results. Designed initially as a surface-to-surface weapon, it scored one of its kills from an A-6 Intruder jet equipped to carry it. The 15-ft. missiles skim the waterline at 600 m.p.h. and smack into the target with a 500-lb. warhead. Powered by a small jet engine, the Harpoon has a range of some 50 miles...
...artistry lies not in an ability to write pleasant fiction, but in his powerful ability to use an inherited form in novel ways. Angelo's book offers no repose to its readers, no chance to lapse into a happy understanding with the text. One can only laugh and skim through the pages, as the narrator does at times, or wrestle with the book...
...even with such great variety not all student needs are or can be accomodated. If we skim through the course catalog we will not find much on, for example, modern history of the countries of the European periphery, such as Italy, Greece, or the Scandinavian countries. Moreover, the development of new fields within the discipline over the past three decades, notably social history and the history of women, has made complete coverage a Promethean task. Offerings from visiting professors are an insufficient solution. There is a point, then, in trying to be diverse, but diversity does not benefit students...
Glick, a wealthy San Diego real estate investor, was a key witness against four organized-crime leaders from Chicago and one from Cleveland in a four-month federal trial that ended last week in Kansas City. The five were charged with helping to skim some $2 million from the Stardust and Fremont casinos. Glick, who bought the casinos in 1974 with $87 million in loans from the Teamsters' Central States pension fund, gave the court vivid details of how the Mob muscled in on his operation...