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Especially engrossing are Cat's adventures on the road--belting out raunchy songs with a pack of drunken soldiers, murmuring flirtation with Diane, a savvy young barmaid with piercing "triangular" eyes, flinging a hand-grenade which nearly explodes in his face...

Author: By Jane Avrich, | Title: Tales From a Dubious Wonderland | 1/14/1987 | See Source »

While at Harvard, the Swedish scholar plans to collect material for his book on the relationship between the diplomat, the politician and the journalist. The triangular drama, as Falkman calls it, plays itself out in the interaction between these three professionals in their search for power and influence...

Author: By Eugenia Balodimas, | Title: For They Are Jolly Good Fellows | 11/13/1986 | See Source »

Some viruses, like the ones that cause the common cold, look vaguely like soccer balls: round with a surface of bumpy triangular facets. Others, particularly the larger bacteriophages, resemble lunar landing modules. The flu virus looks like the head of a Roman mace, with spikes protruding in all directions; herpes viruses are spherical, as is the AIDS variety. Whatever their shape, all viruses have something in common. They are models of biological minimalism, consisting simply of a core of genetic material -- either a DNA or RNA molecule -- and a protective envelope made of proteins (most varieties have a double coat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: AIDS Research Spurs New Interest in Some Ancient Enemies | 11/3/1986 | See Source »

...they don't come through, it's no sweets until the Harvard-Yale-Princeton indoor triangular meet--in February...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Challenge for Crimson Ascetics: It's Heps-Time for Harriers | 10/30/1986 | See Source »

Competing in only his third intercollegiate race this season, Paul Gompers ran away with first place at the men's cross country triangular meet held yesterday at Princeton. Despite Gompers' impressive finish, however, Harvard finished third with 67 points behind Princeton (29) and Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Third at HYPs | 10/25/1986 | See Source »

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