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...final quarter of the book tracks Booth's escape to Virginia, using false names and hobbled by a broken leg, where federal troops eventually catch up to him. He dies while resisting arrest with the final words, "Useless?useless." Geary then wraps up his brief history with a survey of the remaining questions that still surround the events. For example, why did the government remove 18 pages from Booth's journal, and what became of them? Even such open-and-shut cases as Lincoln's murder seem to always have a bit of mystery about them...
...Flyby Spacecraft The ship, 11 ft. long and weighing 1,325 lbs., is powered by solar panels and a rechargeable battery. It uses a suite of instruments to survey the comet. It also gathers and relays data from the impactor...
Prime Minister Shimon Peres has been hampered in his efforts to improve relations with Egypt by a minor but irritating border dispute. At issue is a 250-acre stretch of coastline along the Gulf of Aqaba named Taba, claimed by both countries on the basis of old survey maps. The Israelis completed their withdrawal from the rest of the occupied Sinai in 1982 under the terms of their peace treaty with Egypt. But they retained Taba, and in fact built a resort hotel on it. Peres has been ready to agree to an Egyptian demand for international arbitration...
...flow more freely through the carotid to the brain. There is just one problem, bluntly stated last week at an American Heart Association meeting by Dr. Mark Dyken, chief of neurology at Indiana University: "No careful study has ever shown any conclusive benefit." Of more concern, according to a survey conducted by Dyken and Statistician Robert Pokras, the operation carries a 2.8% risk of death and at least as great a risk of actually causing a stroke. "In the light of present knowledge," said Dyken, "there are too many procedures, performed by too many surgeons, in too many places, with...
...results, Barnes projects that 17 million to 21 million adults in the U.S. cannot read. And this is only some of the bad news. The figures refute the impression, based on a 1979 Census Bureau study, that only one-half of 1% of Americans over 14 are illiterate. This survey assumed that anyone who had finished the fifth grade could read, and fostered the notion that most illiterates are elderly rural people who never got that far in school. The new study shows that the majority of nonreaders are under 50 (see chart) and many have attended high school. Particularly...