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...CHLORAMPHENICOL. For 15 years FDA has struggled with the problem of how to label and whether to restrict the use of this antibiotic (Parke, Davis' Chloromycetin). It is unquestionably the best drug against half a dozen uncommon diseases and a few medical conditions that should be treated in hospitals. But it is often prescribed to avert the aftereffects of a common cold, for which it is useless and also dangerous, because it may cause death from anemia...
Harvard's reputation makes it difficult for high school seniors to reject an offer of admission, and Riesman feels that it is not uncommon for a person to make the wrong choice in coming to Harvard. He thinks that a more flexible system of transferring might be one solution. "I've been impressed by people who have transferred to Harvard. They usually
...reputation grows. The Sea Wall (1950), her first novel, was a book of unusual promise: a gruelingly realistic description of life on a moldering plantation in French Indo-China, where she grew up. Since then, Author Duras has had very little to say, but she has shown uncommon ingenuity in finding new ways to say it. She studied the "ex-teriorist" novels of Alain Robbe-Grillet and Nathalie Sarraute and learned to create characters that are all skin and no insides. She tried her hand at avantgarde drama and learned to produce dialogue so obscure it passes for profound...
Next day Mrs. Norma Rowe reported her daughter missing, gave police the names of Schmid, Saunders and Mary French as possible sources of information. The three were questioned repeatedly, but police finally became convinced that Alleen had simply run away from home-a not uncommon occurrence among teen-agers in Tucson's fast-growing, mobile society where few families stay long enough to put down roots...
...seemed innocent enough until two years ago when one girl returned from a trip to Mexico unaware that she had contracted trachoma-an infection that attacks the cornea of the eye and can scar it badly enough to cause permanent blindness. That single case of a disease relatively uncommon in the U.S. spread rapidly into an epidemic of 80. The virus, reported California's Dr. Phillips Thygeson last week, was transmitted by eyebrow pencils that had been loaned by one girl to the next. His point was clear: young or old, women must learn to keep their makeup kits...