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...Purple Worms, Giant Leeches, Nixies, Griffons and Invisible Stalkers. Players take the characters of men, hobbits, elves or dwarfs and fight or hunt treasure according to elaborate rules: "The charisma score is usable to decide such things as whether a witch capturing a player will turn him into a swine or keep him enchanted as a lover." One game in Cambridge, Mass., played every Saturday by members of M.I.T.'s Strategic Games Society, has gone on since spring and search teams have explored only three levels of the labyrinth cooked up by Dungeon Master Bob Ruppert. It took Ruppert...
...control only drugs that cross state lines; the states are free to license those that are manufactured and used within their boundaries in spite of federal disapproval. In fighting against the drugs, federal health officials have suffered from their loss of some public respect following the false swine-flu scare and the FDA'S proposed restrictions on the sale of saccharin. The agency acted after the laboratory rats which were fed huge quantities of the substance then developed cancer...
Harvard did not escape last fall's swine-fluvaccine fervor, and the University Health Services (UHS) set up a vaccination program. Seventeen per cent of the eligible Harvard community members took the shots before the program was discontinued. The vaccine appeared to provoke a rare syndrome--producing temporary paralysis--in isolated cases, and federal officials decided to end the mass-immunization effort...
That may not be easy. After last year's abortive swine-flu program with its unexpected cases of paralysis, the public is understandably wary of any inoculations, whatever protection they may offer. In addition, many parents have mistakenly concluded, in the absence of any great epidemics, that youngsters no longer need vaccinations against such menaces of the past as poliomyelitis. Nonetheless, there are signs of a reawakening to the measles danger. In Los Angeles, thousands of youngsters turned up for shots after school authorities threatened to bar them from classes without proof of inoculations. In New York, health officials...
...vaccine, the Government halted the shots when it was confirmed that the paralyzing Guillain-Barré syndrome was a possible, if rare, side effect. Since February, when the program was resumed, only 11,000 people have rolled up their sleeves. Today, storerooms are stacked with 85 million doses of swine-flu vaccine, plus 27 million doses good for both that strain and the A/Victoria variety. Public health experts have urged that the vaccines be stored indefinitely: there may some day be a swine-flu outbreak...