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...according to schedule, a tiny, null palm-fringed speck in the Pacific, some 1,700 miles northeast of Australia, will become the world's newest nation. The Republic of Nauru, administered by Australia as a U.N. trust territory since 1947, will have a native population of 3,000, smallest of any nation state. But what Nauruans lack in numbers they make up with money. They have per capita income of about $4,000, compared with...
...look at the phenomenon of clotting inside blood vessels, including coronary arteries. In the past ten years, he said, it has been shown that formation of a thrombus that will plug an artery is a complex process following an inflammatory reaction and involving an aggregation of platelets, the smallest solid elements in the blood. It may be possible, he suggested, to use anti-inflammatory drugs to control or prevent some kinds of thrombus formation. But by the same token, it may be unwise to give such drugs-even aspirin-to a patient taking anticoagulants, since they may depress the coagulability...
...bargaining sessions with Harvard got underway. This would mean a time span of approximately a year and a half between the technical expiration date of the BGMA's last contract and the beginning of the bargaining for a new contract. The union would be able to get only the smallest pay settlements retroactive to the last contract because of the great time span. Thus, they felt that Harvard was operating primarily out of economic motives and not out of consideration for its employees in insisting upon a state-run election...
...Strip and aim their long-range cameras across the line to where Egyptian troops had replaced the U.N. forces. Often as not, they would sight right into the long-range cameras of photographers on the opposite side, shooting the other way. The Middle East is a place where the smallest distances can mark in superable barriers, and the only way to cover the situation is to have men on both sides...
Sione first saw a rugby ball six years ago when he began high school in Tonga. He made the varsity as a freshman, and was team captain as a sophomore. His team went undefeated both years. "I was the smallest man on the team," says Sione, who stands 5-11 and weighs 210 pounds...