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...first Reformation, in the 16th century, caused the breakup of a church so encrusted with corruption that it had lost much of its power to transmit the power and the glory of God to man. Into this glittering desert of faith the reformers threw their prophetic insights to have them seized and shared like bread among the starving; and the counterreformers on the Roman Catholic side pruned back their corrupt and dying tree of faith to a new life...
...Tribune's solidly established European edition, also headquartered in Paris), the Western Times will be written almost entirely in New York. The whole operation will be bossed from New York by Assistant General Manager Andrew Fisher, 40. Borrowing a practice long used by national magazines, the Times will transmit stories west by perforated tapes that will activate automatic typesetting machines at the Times's Los Angeles job-printer...
Repulsive Carpet. Alarmed by this evidence that bats can transmit rabies without biting, the Public Health Service assigned Dr. Denny Constantine, 36, a lifelong student of bats, and a crew of hardy assistants to the ugly and dangerous job of checking further. Researcher Constantine is not easily daunted. During field work in Alaska six years ago, he crawled into a den of hibernating bears and took the rectal temperature of the biggest one while pacifying the restive animal with lumps of sugar. But for his new job he needed more equanimity than ever. Bat caves are chambers of horror. Their...
...carriers of the blood fluke that causes schistosomiasis, a disease on the rampage in Egypt, parasitologists are growing 20 varieties of snails in order to test 3,000 chemicals that might kill the fluke. Tropical virologists grow many kinds of mosquitoes to bite size, to study what subspecies can transmit such diseases as yellow fever and eastern equine encephalitis, a form of sleeping sickness that periodically reaches epidemic strength in New Jersey, Massachusetts and Louisiana. "Problems-nothing but problems," says Dr. G. Robert Coatney. "In nature mosquitoes grow without any trouble, but when we try to raise them, they...
...Jack Soble spoke, the haggard defendant, charged with conspiring to gather and transmit U.S. defense secrets-a crime punishable by death-looked away and reached for a pill. He is, his doctor says, dying of leukemia...