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...recent years European public health officials have been puzzled by a number of cholera outbreaks in areas where the disease is usually unheard of. Several such cases occurred in Czechoslovakia, Portugal and northern France; one even involved a woman, 65, who had never left her village and could not have had contact with any cholera carriers. Now a British researcher offers a novel explanation for these mysterious outbreaks. Writing in the British Journal of Hygiene, Dr. Charles Rondle and his colleagues at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine suggest that the cholera came, literally, out of thin...
...pulls into New York City we are close to three days late. But no one is eager to say goodbye. It does not seem to matter that the whole experience seems as corny as a 1940s movie. Roughing it, sharing everything from spare cash to toothbrushes, has formed bonds unheard of on Amtrak. Jerry, Ted and Susie stay aboard, heading for the last stop in Boston. As the bus pulls out, the traveler, walking away in the snow, hands jammed into pockets against the cold, finds that someone has slipped her the jack of hearts...
...tasks of leadership more difficult. It is a time that offers no obvious set of answers to problems of great technical complexity. Carter, the engineer, has addressed energy, inflation, unemployment, the Middle East, the SALT II agreement and government reorganization, treating each one methodically and with an almost unheard-of degree of presidential attention to detail. He has also been willing to try bold new approaches, like the Camp David summit. Yet the more he studies, the more it becomes apparent not only that each problem is difficult, but that each is connected to other problems. Remedies for the energy...
Additional difficulties have stemmed from the fact that the Visual and Environmental Studies Department is among the newest at Harvard, fairly small, and struggling for more financial support from the University. Many studio courses depend on fees, an almost unheard of situation in the sciences. The small but dedicated faculty have virtually achieved miracles within the limitations of space and budget that have affected teaching, studying and exhibitions. Yet the department chairman, Lou Bakanowsky has been much quoted for his remark that "the visual arts need to be more visible...
...According to church sources, when the Pope slipped quietly out of the Vatican for his return visit, he wore a priest's black cassock and was whisked off in a car with Rome license plates?instead of using his telltale Mercedes with its Vatican plates. It was an almost unheard-of thing for a Pope to do, and there was no official confirmation of the trip. But set against the week's other gestures, it seemed entirely in character...