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Quiet in the Delta. The level of fighting, to be sure, did not nearly approach the intensity of battle that had prevailed earlier in the year. Whatever tacit understanding to lower the level of violence that had been reached be tween the U.S. and the North Vietnamese seemed to be working, at least in part. Nonetheless, almost 500 Americans and more than 450 South Vietnamese have died in action since Nov. 1. The weekly average of 144 U.S. battle deaths since then is admittedly considerably lower than the average of 293 for the year prior to the halt...
...PLAYHOUSE. "The Mayfly and the Frog." Sir John Gielgud stars in a fanciful story about a tender encounter be tween a middle-aged multimillionaire and a scruffy teen-age girl...
...lies in the fact that the brains of Parkinsonism victims are deficient in dopamine, a natural body chemical essential to normal nerve activity in the midbrain. So, researchers reasoned, why not give the patients extra dopamine? The trouble is that dopamine cannot cross the natural barrier be tween the bloodstream and the brain to reach the deprived cells. But dopa, an amino acid that comes in three forms including L-dopa, crosses the barrier by a process not yet fully understood. It is broken down in the brain to yield the desired dopamine...
...second half of the 20th century, the gap be tween wish and denial has often been widened by the very institutions that should provide certainty. Science has bared the mysteries of subatomic particles, and in the process has almost turned into a new metaphysics groping for evidence of things unseen. As organized religion loses its appeal through stuffiness or sterility, people seeking faith increasingly turn to mystical religions, such as Zen and Zoroastrianism...
...once, the Communist and non-Communist worlds - and some countries that find themselves in be tween-joined in a general condemnation of Soviet force. The free world is accustomed to condemning Russian inroads and intransigence, from the brutal putdown of the Hungarian revolt to the erection of the Berlin Wall. In the past, most Communist countries and parties have either wholeheartedly supported such transgressions-or at least closed their eyes to them-but no longer. Last week, in one country after another, Communists found themselves on the side of the Czechoslovaks...