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Researchers have suspected for years that Hodgkin's disease-cancer of the lymphatic system-might be communicable to a small degree. New findings reported in the British medical publication Lancet offer the strongest evidence yet to support the theory: thirteen cases of the relatively rare illness have been discovered in Albany, N.Y. Each of the victims had associated with at least one of the others or with a mutual acquaintance. Ten have died...
...Administration announced its charges three weeks later: it had found evidence against nine students. Members of SJP brought charges against thirteen students, three of whom had already been charged by the Administration. While the CRR prepared to hear the cases, SJP announced plans for another teach...
...limousine. Last week, moving forcefully to consolidate his power, he continued the arrests, demotions and sackings that have now affected some 500 army officers and 300 bureaucrats. Police were rounding up for investigation 1,000 or so members of a "secret organization" loyal to ex-Interior Minister Shaarawi Gomaa. Thirteen of Egypt's 25 provincial governors are reported on the way out, and a shake-up in the diplomatic service is rumored. In recognition of the numerous new enemies the President has made, however, the cops now keep the street in front of his home blockaded. To escort...
Serendipity is often the researcher's best friend. Thirteen years ago, Dr. Paul Gordon, a professor of microbiology and pharmacology at Chicago Medical School, set out to find a drug that would improve memory and increase learning ability. What he actually found, he reported last week to a Chicago meeting of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, may prove even more valuable-a nontoxic, broad-spectrum agent that works against a wide variety of viruses...
...school system," sent uniformed and plainclothes policemen into four Boston high schools to prevent arson and keep non-students out of the buildings. He said the conspiracy was made up of "extremists, the Progressive Labor Party, communist sympathizers, and SDS." Three weeks later one fourth of the students in thirteen Boston high schools went on strike asking for an end to harassment of black students, more black teachers and guidance counselors, student control of student councils, and more involvement in school policy decisions. Mayor Kevin White said he could not even consider the demands until students stopped their "illegal" strike...