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...black nationalist leader at the recent summit, namely that African nations doing business with South Africa "ought to be disciplined by the O.A.U." Since all too many countries on the continent have trade dealings with Pretoria, the chances of any such disciplinary action against Sierra Leone are very slim indeed...
...then, as can happen in hospitals anywhere, "she got into trouble," says Zapol. She apparently had an infected fallopian tube and then a "misadventure" with anesthesia, followed by cardiac arrest and blood infection. When Zapol arrived in Moscow, she was having difficulty breathing and her chances of survival seemed slim...
...weapons and the inability of rival guerrilla factions to form a common front. In the analysis of one U.S. official, the biggest danger facing Moscow in Afghanistan may be political rather than military: "The Communist regime they installed is weaker, less popular, more in disarray [than ever]. Its original slim support is eroding. The Soviets are in danger of losing their puppet regime...
...woman is ever too slim or too rich," goes a popular adage. It may be wrong. Though the obese definitely run greater risks of hypertension, heart attacks, diabetes and other ills, the very thin are not necessarily any healthier. Studying data collected on 5,209 men and women during a 24-year study, National Institutes of Health Epidemiologist Paul Sorlie and his colleagues confirmed that the obese had higher death rates than those of average weight, but they were surprised by similar high mortality rates for the underweight. The finding could not be explained by such factors as the amount...
...This slim book calls itself a story and reads like a fourth installment of Playwright Lillian Hellman's memoirs. In the latter guise, it is not a sequel but a haunting. Its 92 pages of actual text skip glancingly over the life already set forth in An Unfinished Woman (1969), Pentimento (1973) and Scoundrel Time (1976). This time, though, Hellman seems less interested in setting her record straight than in wondering whether such a task is possible at all. She writes: "So much of what you had counted on as a solid wall of convictions now seems...