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...coach and some of his players add that two of this season's major offensive problems--point guard Calvin Dixon's leg injury and captain Don Fleming's scoring slump--may vanish in time for the Brown and Yale games...
...paucity of verified knowledge about colds could never deduced by anybody studying a typical cold season. Mere 'acts about the disease usually vanish into persisting clouds of folklore. The belief that dampness, chilliness and drafts cause colds, though debunked repeatedly in controlled experiments is still widely held-and energetically perpetuated by parents in cautioning children. "Don't get your feet wet, you'll catch cold." Even though medical research has long since shown that neither antihistamines nor any other medication can change the course of a cold, Americans spend some $1 billion a year on untold thousands...
...into a deer-size species that combines the lagomorph's gnawing teeth with the long, hoofed legs of the ungulates to form a new genus, Ungulagus. These super-rabbits will not have to worry about the wolves, foxes and feline carnivores that attack deer today; such predators will vanish with their present prey. But they may have to keep a watchful eye out for falanx, Amphimorphodus cynomorphus: dog-size predators likely to evolve as today's rats sense a new opportunity and literally grow into...
...rising productivity and increased employment combine to increase federal revenues and wipe out the loss to the Treasury from the tax cuts. By 1984, according to this rosy projection, the deficit should have shrunk from around $55 billion next year to a minuscule $2.2 billion-though even that could vanish with further refinements in the tax package...
...refuse to accept Armageddon, not because I refuse to look at the Bomb's drab snout, but because I have too much faith in humanity to believe that after all our evolution and history, our triumphs and failures, our knowledge and learning, some overreacting Zeus will make us vanish in one mighty poof of a fireball...