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Above all, he is very lucky even to be Prime Minister. Pundits and polls alike had predicted a respectable victory for Yasuhiro Nakasone and his Liberal Democrats, so the news last week sent a shokku from the southern tip of Kyushu to northern Hokkaido. When the ballots were counted for the 511-member lower house of parliament, the L.D.P. had failed to win a majority, only the third time that has happened since the party came to power in 1955. Indeed, the Liberal Democrats' loss of 36 seats, from 286 to 250, was the largest they had ever suffered...
...Marine, the American at the tip of the spear of American diplomacy...
Nevertheless, after getting an anonymous tip, police circulated his photo among witnesses to robberies in the area. When one singled out his picture, saying, "I think it might have been him," police picked Geter up and grilled him about more than a dozen unsolved holdups. The next day police arrested Geter's roommate and fellow black engineer Anthony Williams in connection with a $31 robbery of a 7-Eleven store in Garland...
...understand why all of these middle-aged white engineers were so upset. They were visibly shaken. Here was a young engineer making $24,000 a year. Now why would a guy like this hold up a fried-chicken restaurant?" Her story was the first to publicize that the tip leading police to consider Geter had come from a woman who had merely seen a black man park his car, nowhere near any robbery site, and taken down his license number...
...Andreas Gruntzig developed an ingenious method of unclogging arteries using a small balloon. In angioplasty, now performed on about 12,000 patients a year, a narrow tube, or catheter, is threaded into the diseased artery until it reaches the clogged area. At that point a tiny balloon at the tip of the catheter is repeatedly inflated so that it flattens the deposits against the arterial wall and widens the channel...