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...first ten minutes of the second half. In the meantime, though, Harvard was playing as if had never seen a zone defense before. The Crimson had to work the ball around for a full minute before getting a clear 20-foot shot. Harvard made its rally at a snail's pace, and got within two points with ten minutes left...
...squishy little parasites are less than an inch long, but they cause a globe-girdling disease variously known as schistosomiasis, bilharziasis, or simply snail fever. The more man does to increase his food supply, the more he nurtures the parasites and spreads the disease. Only a few years ago, the world had an estimated 100 to 200 million schistosomiasis victims spread across much of Asia, Africa and Latin America; now the estimate is 50% higher, largely because new irrigation canals and other waterworks have enlarged the parasites' habitat...
Schistosoma parasites hatch in water, then have a complex life cycle: they enter the body of a snail, progress to a second larval form, then emerge and enter the human body either by mouth or through the skin. In man they cause a lifelong debilitating disease marked by coughs, rashes, blood in the urine, fever and nausea; eventually they attack the liver, lungs, spleen and brain...
...study contract for a tiny, cigar-sized jet that would take advantage of the moon's light gravity (one-sixth that of the earth) to send an astronaut vaulting over crater and crag. Boeing and Bendix each have about $1,500,000 to design a lunar jeep, a snail-paced (5 m.p.h. to 10 m.p.h.), relatively light vehicle for short excursions during the early exploratory trips...
...registrar's office in Alabama's Lee County bore the sign "Back Sept.1," and the office in Mississippi's Rankin County was closed because the circuit clerk has been "ill." In some counties, local registrars processed whites ahead of Negroes, then slowed to a snail's pace. In others, they let Negroes through the door only to propel them right back out after advising them to come back in 30 days to see if they had passed "the test"−though the new act bars the use of any kind of test to determine voting eligibility...