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...cataract, or clouding, on the rear surface of the lens. (The lens is especially vulnerable to microwave "cooking" because it has no blood vessels to carry off heat.) In 1968 the Department of Health, Education and Welfare said that another organ was vulnerable as well: the testes, because only slight temperature changes can affect the sperm-producing process...
...send the Turks about $140 million worth of fighter jets and missiles, among other things. But the Turks, angered by the embargo, began making overtures to their Russian neighbors. Moscow responded eagerly and this year alone granted Ankara an $800 million credit for non-military purchases. Turkey's slight shift toward neutralism is now expected...
...Liberal Party was driven last week to the police station in the small Somerset town of Minehead. A court clerk asked whether his name was John Jeremy Thorpe. The answer was an all but inaudible "It is." Following a hearing that lasted a scant 21 minutes, the slight, dapper Thorpe, 49, was released on $10,000 bail after being formally charged with conspiracy to murder. The alleged target: Norman Scott, 37, a down-and-out male model who 2½ years ago publicly claimed that he and Thorpe had had a homosexual relationship. The stunning legal action presented Britons with...
China's more pragmatic approach to foreign policy has led to a slight downplaying of its avowed intention of "liberating" Taiwan by force if necessary -the main obstacle to normalization of U.S.-Chinese relations. Returning from a ten-day visit to China two weeks ago, New York Democratic Congressman Lester Wolff reported that China's top foreign policymaker, Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing, had told him that Peking was willing to negotiate its differences on Taiwan with the Nationalist Chinese government. Said Wolff: "There was none of the rhetoric we had heard before about...
...will probably have "some effect" on new hiring policies for Harvard, Dean Rosovsky said yesterday. He added, however, that the effect at Harvard would be "relatively slight...