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...other ifs become fact, IF will be an ideal cancer drug, for it is a natural substance, produced in infinitesimal amounts by the body. Unlike existing treatments, interferon seems not to damage healthy cells or produce horrendous side effects. Its only apparent shortcomings seem temporary and confined to slight fever, fatigue, and a small decrease in the bone marrow's production of blood cells...
Anderson was the target of the bickering partly because two polls showed him to be the slight favorite in this week's Illinois primary, but the contests so far have established Reagan as the clear leader over his divided opponents...
...Bleeding Heart suggests a slight thaw. Its core is a seemingly endless and inconclusive dialogue-SALT talks in the gender wars-between a 45-year-old woman and her lover, a middle-aged businessman. Dolores Durer is a professor of English at a Boston college, divorced and the mother of grown children. She is in Oxford, England, to complete research for her book, Lot's Wife: A Study of the Identification of Women with Suffering...
Thomas O'Brien, vice president for financial affairs, said yesterday neither the 21-per-cent rise in the endowment since mid-1979 nor its recent slight decline because of the bond market will affect next year's Faculty budget...
...those early years, young Peter became a chronic watcher in the shadows backstage. He had slight choice in the matter. Given the rootless life of strolling players, there was little opportunity to develop friendships of a lasting sort. "I never had any real set mates," he told Biographer Peter Evans (Peter Sellers: The Mask Behind the Mask). "I'd make friends in one town for one week and then we'd move on. You'd hope, if you played that town again, maybe a year later, that the friend you'd made would still be around; perhaps...