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Claude-Nicolas Ledoux (1736-1806), a protégé of Madame du Barry's who was appointed one of Louis XV's official architects in 1773, designed a spherical county ranger's house, 50 royal toll houses and observation posts, and a workers city for the state-owned saltworks of the Franche-Comté. The French Revolution intervened before any of his projects were built; but his company towns have long since been translated into reality...
...year in the U. S. (v. 3,700,000 live births). No one records illegal abortions; all statistics are extrapolated from shaky sample studies going as far back as Germany in the 1920s. As for deaths resulting from abortions, which are better recorded, the annual toll is probably about 1,000. No one can accurately add up the number of U. S. women who go to Puerto Rico, Japan, and other places where abortions are easily, if expensively, obtained. The firmest figure is the number of legal abortions (10,000 a year) performed in hospitals-and they are decreasing...
...Coast Guard helicopters plucked wretched, barefoot refugees from the water, leaving their homes and possessions to the floods and their livestock to hovering buzzards. Evacuees far exceeded 100,000 by week's end, and estimates of the homeless went as high as 1,000,000. The full death toll will not be known until the flood subsides, but officials had already counted 44 bodies on both sides of the border...
Many of the sculptures were toppled by natives three centuries ago, during bloody internecine warfare between two island clans. Since then, erosion has taken its toll, natives have torn down ancient temples for their own needs; lately, road and airport engineers have joined in the destruction. The newest threat is the tourist invasion, bringing in its train unsupervised treasure hunting and souvenir collecting. Before it is too late, Father Sebastian pleads, a fund must be set up to uncover and restore the island's largely uninvestigated monuments. "Fully restored," says Tour Director Lars-Eric Lindblad, "Easter Island will equal...
Admittedly, said Dr. Burchenal, these cases represent only a fraction of 1% of the world's leukemia toll (the U.S. annually records about 18,000 new leukemia cases-about 3,000 children), and virtually all got intensive treatment in one of the few medical centers specializing in leukemia. But this does not mean that such care is limited to children living close to those centers. Dr. Zubrod urged his physician listeners to refer patients with suspected leukemia to the centers where, if the diagnosis is confirmed, they can be treated by a team of experts until the leukemic cell...