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...doctor may be using these wisely against an infection for which they are known to be effective, or unwisely against virus" diseases in which they are not likely to be of any use. Either way the antibiotics kill off many of the bacteria normally found in a healthy intestinal tract. In so doing, they disturb the balance of nature and leave the depopulated gut as a breeding ground for yeastlike fungi, especially one called Monilla (or Candida) albicans...
...city of Taichung contributed the 345-acre tract on which the university is located. Architect I. M. Pei of Manhattan's Webb & Knapp, himself a graduate of St. John's University in Shanghai, a mainland Christian college, drew up plans for three terraced college quadrangles and four dormitories of open design. The college's 35 faculty members include refugee mainlanders, Formosans and teachers from the U.S. President Tseng was given leave from his post as professor of English literature at Taiwan National Uni versity to take over at Tunghai...
...Very Progressive." In nearby North Springfield, Va., the businesslike Russians inspected a big new tract of mass-built, medium-priced ($14,000-$18,000) houses. On the way, they commented on the lack of flowers along the roads, later expressed amazement that so many trees had been cut down at the building site. "In Russia," one of them said, "anyone who cuts down a tree without permission is heavily fined...
...Mill Flat Creek on the fourth day, the crews prepared a 20-ft. break and a final stand. All morning they stamped out blazes flaring up across the line. But at 2 p.m. the fire roared across, raced three miles in 38 minutes, destroyed a fresh 4,000-acre tract of prime timber - 2,000,000 trees-before evening. "This," said one ranger, "is a classic fire. It's the kind the boys will be talking about for the next 20 years...
...Methodist Conferences of Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi announced plans to build a million-dollar hotel with a modern church on a 30-acre tract in the wide-open gambling town of Biloxi, Miss...