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When President Lyndon Johnson once showed up for some morning ceremonial duties in a gray suit and brown shoes, the people traveling with him were immediately alert for a change in the day's doings. Johnson was fastidious about the trappings of office, and even the slight dissonance of brown and gray hinted a new mood or schedule...
...muscles of the uterus. In tests on 350 pregnant women at eleven centers in the U.S., it has successfully prolonged pregnancy to the 36th week in more than half of the cases. The drug, to be sure, has side effects, including increased maternal and fetal heart rate, a slight drop in blood pressure, palpitations, tremors and nervousness. Recalls one Chicago mother, Susie Kellett: "It was like superspeed." Still, the effects appear to be transient; Kellett went on to give birth to healthy quadruplets...
...them took oral contraceptives regularly. Among the findings: Pill users did not have higher mortality rates than nonusers, if they did not smoke, and ran no greater risk of developing circulatory problems or cancer of the breast, ovaries or lining of the uterus. Though the researchers did note a slight increase in lung cancer, they said that it was probably caused by the women's heavy cigarette smoking. Similarly, they said, a significant increase in cervical cancer could be attributed not to the Pill, but to sexual habits, including sex at an early age and multiple partners...
...standards cannot grow as fast as they have for the past generation. Workers cannot receive real wage increases without productivity gains, consumers cannot buy as much, and governments cannot spend money on social programs unless they have the tax revenues to pay for them. The result will be a slight fall-off in growth for some countries this year and perhaps next, but stronger and basically more healthy Western European economies on the other side of the downturn...
...subject this fall when the University's sole outlet for disposal of low-level radioactive waste suddenly shut down. Getting rid of the less-than-deadly waste, produced by area laboratories and hospitals at the rate of about 3500 30-gallon barrels each year, proved more than a slight headache for University officials when Washington Gov. Dixie Lee Ray closed the Hanford, Wash., dumping site in early October...