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During the Irish Rebellion of 1798 priests were sometimes executed by the "pitch cap": a tonsure of tar was ignited on the condemned man's head. Honor Tracy gives her own light twist to those cruel days. She drops a ripe red mulberry on the head of the canon. Its juice is the same color as his own flushed scalp. From there on, talented Author Tracy rarely, if ever, relents. In one word, the story is Irish, perhaps - to borrow the judgment Joyce's Dedalus made of his "all Irish" father - it is "all too Irish...
...ordinary sarsaparilla as a cure for everything from "female complaints" to syphilis. Today it approves license applications for 600 new drugs a year, modifications in 4,000 to 5,000 others. It certifies every batch of insulin made and marketed in the U.S., five major antibiotics, and all coal-tar dyes...
...Asphalt and tar: 9,000,000 tons v. 5,850,000 tons...
...intensive study of the relationship between cancer and cigarette smoking, it was clearly a breakthrough. Searching for the element in cigarette tar that causes cancers on mice (and, presumably, lung cancer in man), U.S. and Canadian scientists had narrowed the field to an identifiable fraction...
Last week Dr. Ernest L. Wynder of Manhattan's Sloan-Kettering Institute and the University of Toronto's Dr. George Wright told fellow experts in Atlantic City that they had separated the tar (by machine-smoking tons of cigarettes) into acid, alkaline and neutral portions. These were subdivided again until the researchers found the active cancer-causing fraction. It proved to be in the neutral portion. Isolated and applied to mice in the laboratory, it produced many cancers. Although it constitutes only 1½% of the tar, the dangerous material contains many different chemical compounds, including a number...