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Then why are most Americans unfamiliar with it? For one thing, the bacterium that causes chlamydia could not be easily isolated and studied until 1965. "The bugs couldn't be grown in the laboratory, and people don't want to work with things that are difficult," says Julius Schachter, an epidemiologist at the University of California, San Francisco. Then, too, the presence of chlamydial infections until recently could be detected only by a complicated laboratory test that took up to seven days to complete and was offered at few medical centers in the U.S. As a result, chlamydia was rarely...
...Kremlin policy. To understate the case, Soviet leaders do not rise to the top by advocating brilliantly unorthodox ideas. Says one Kremlinologist: "There are no young Turks in the Kremlin waiting to redress the wrongs of previous generations." But Soviet policy may become less predictable as new leaders relatively unfamiliar to the West acquire authority...
...scholarly industry that has been applied to James' work over the past several decades, it is astonishing to learn that nearly a thousand of these pages, roughly one-third of the total, have never before been issued in book form. What is more, the appearance now of this unfamiliar material reveals the Old Master in a new light: a great American novelist who wrote more superb criticism than any compatriot, before or since...
...surely the first time that Gromyko and Reagan had felt disposed to echo each other. But, then, they faced an unfamiliar task: describing an agreement that Gromyko had reached with Secretary of State George Shultz. To be sure, it was only an agreement to talk some more--specifically, to resume formal arms-control bargaining at a time and place to be selected within a month. Moreover, the U.S. and Soviet positions entering those new negotiations are very far apart; there is no assurance that they can be harmonized. Nonetheless, the similar statements by Gromyko and Reagan pointed to a tacit...
...become more of a person in her own right," says the aide, "and no longer just Ronald Reagan's wife." The First Lady delivers speeches more often and more effectively, and recently engaged an outside writer to provide her with new, improved material. She has plunged into unfamiliar territory, sitting on Mr. T's lap at a White House Christmas celebration, opening her arms to a young addict at a California drug rehabilitation clinic and, in Peking last spring, responding gracefully when Chinese Leader Deng Xiaoping suggested to her that "next time" she "come alone." A few weeks...