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...have noted a link between birds and heart problems. To examine the connection, Cardiologist Christopher Ward and Immunologist Anthony M. Ward (no kin) questioned 257 patients under treat ment for valvular heart disease. They found that 125 had had rheumatic fe ver or a related ailment. But they fur ther discovered that of the 132 with no history of these illnesses, 83 (or 63%) had owned or handled birds. The doctors examined post-mortem tissue from 27 patients who had had valvular heart disease. Seven were carrying antigens indicating possible infection with a microorganism called Chlamydia psittaci-the same microbe...
...everything after this is an anti-climax, either. Barnes' touch remains reliably strong throughout the whole play, which runs for three long and rewarding hours, mixing burlesque, absurdist tradition, and blank verse of an elevation hardly to be found since Eliot: "Twill make a desert of this world/Whilst ther's still one man left t' give commands/And another who'll obey them," Carlos says bitterly of all authority. Barnes--if not quite up to the level of his originals--is adept at suggesting Shakespeare, Wilde and the Marx brothers, and is best at bringing them all together to make something...
Time and again he reduces his charac ters to elements in static landscapes, fur ther distancing us from Molly and friends. friends...
...have discussed this policy with some of my peers and to my surprise have met some resistance. Ther veracity of the rationale for action as well as the action outlined is intellectually unquestionable. But the persuasive indoctrination of this institution has even shown itself capable of obscuring such a simple sociological truth. Half the blame for this policy will be ours in twenty years, and while we are still together in college it is our obligation to teach administrators (as well as ourselves) that "people" include females as well as males, that "education" should involve independent intellectual thought, not dogmatic...
...increase of $6.3 billion over last year's defense expenditures. While inflation accounts for a large portion of the increase, at least $250 million (and a projected $5-10 billion over the next decade) is earmarked for the Pentagon's new family of weapons. These weapons include a larger ther-monuclear warhead for more accurate intercontinental missiles, mobile land-based missiles, jet-powered missiles that can be launched from either submarines or airplanes, maneuverable missile warheads that can home in on a target, and smaller ballistic-missile submarines...