Word: tors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Powerful Parasite. The classic disease is caused by Vibrio cholera bacteria, comma-shaped microbes that multiply in the intestine and thrive in contaminated water supplies. The bug responsible for the present pandemic, a strain first identified in 1906 at the Tor quarantine station in Egypt, is prolific and can quickly cause death if not treated promptly. It multiplies rapidly in the gut, producing millions of offspring in a matter of hours. The bacteria trigger a devastating diarrhea that can drain off as much as 15% of the body fluids in eight hours, depleting the body of water and essential salts...
Douglas also disqualified himself from the most celebrated obscenity matter now before the court-two cases involving the Swedish film, I Am Curious (Yellow). Though he gave no reason, the film is distributed by Grove Press which recently paid Douglas $200 tor the right to print excerpts from his controversial book, Points of Rebellion, in Evergreen magazine...
...Sommer. It was conceived as a painless way for middle-class whites to experience-and understand-the frustrations of blacks. In Sommer's version, however, the black player could not win; as a simulation of frustration, the game was too successful. Then David Popoff, a Psychology Today edi tor, redesigned the game, taking suggestions from militant black members of "US" in San Diego. The new rules give black players an opportunity to use-and even to beat-the System...
Intimations of Mortality The kids played ruff almost every where they went. Peter unrestrainedly spieled about the girl whose abortion he had arranged ? and made necessary ? the drugs he took, the lousy pic- tures he made. He claimed that when he first viewed Tammy and the Doc- tor, he vomited. The bombing of The Victors and Lilith did not sweeten a pesonality that seemed to have sand under its skin. Reality was to be fled; Peter became the acidhead of the house. "In those days, it wasn't an il legal drug," he says. "It was pure...