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...takes a weaver a month to fill in one square yard of tapestry. First a set of colorless threads called the warp is strung on the loom to serve as the foundation for weaving. The other set of threads, the colored weft, is all that is visible in the finished tapestry. The weft passes over and under the warp; each time a different colored area is indicated in the cartoon, a bobbin holding a different colored thread must be used, and the ends of the different colored threads must be tied to hold the tapestry together. A tapestry is made...
...hazard to health and even life: 50% of all babies who die in the first month after delivery are among the 7% born prematurely. Some doctors, though, see no direct connection between smoking and prematurity; they argue that the problem is a matter of temperament, that high-strung women who smoke would have a high proportion of "preemies" anyway. To make sure, NIH's Dr. Richard Masland wants to check the same mothers before and after they quit smoking...
...minute campaign speech he mentioned himself exactly 213 times. In the same vein, he recalled to a Centerville audience that "I came down here as a boy and cut a right of way 20 feet wide and dug holes six and eight feet deep and set poles and strung wire. I'll guarantee you that within the last 24 hours half the people in this audience have turned on electricity that Frank Clement put in your homes." Where he had once made hay as a boy wonder (he was first elected Governor in 1952 at 32), he now preached...
...challenging situation, such as having to do tests in a room kept as noisy as a boiler factory, extra sleep reduced efficiency for some navymen. High strung subjects, after loss of sleep, turned in better-than-usual performances. A full night's sleep seemed to restore their tensions...
...that's not worth the moonlight at Maubeuge"-and put them to music. At first, hearing the song, the Maubeugeois felt insulted, but as crowds of the curious began to visit the town, shopkeepers and bistro owners changed their tune. Crescent-shaped lights were strung over the streets; shop windows were filled with moon-shaped cookies, sausages, souvenir pigeon baskets and ashtrays. Mayor Pierre Forest made Songwriter Perrin an honorary citizen; and last week the city tidied up after a nine-day festival that naturally featured the song, Moonlight at Maubeuge, and drew a crowd of 150,000. Unbelievably...