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...least a dozen methods have been tried, without notable success, to cure herpes. Among them: vitamin C, injections of inactive herpes viruses, fluorescent light, ether, even zinc in the diet. An ointment containing 2-deoxy-D-glucose seemed promising a year ago, but researchers are not so optimistic now. Acyclovir (ACV), an antiviral drug, looks promising, but testing is far from complete or conclusive. Smallpox vaccine has been tried unsuccessfully, and vaccines in general are viewed warily: if herpes does in fact cause cancer, some vaccines could increase the risk by increasing the number of herpes viruses in the body...
...wait. What was that bright yellow contraption whining softly on New York City's streets last week? It was a Volkswagen Rabbit powered not by a gasoline-drinking internal-combustion engine, but by a zinc-chloride "Electric Engine" developed by Gulf & Western Industries. The G & W power system, unveiled with much fanfare, is the latest step toward the return of the volts wagon. With gasoline heading toward $1.50 per gal., with the nation bent on reducing imports of OPEC oil, and with cleaner air high on Washington's list of priorities, the electric vehicle, or EV for short...
...could increase dramatically if Detroit's carmakers ever decide to start building them. Closest is General Motors, which has produced a prototype, the Electro Vette (a Chevette with lead-acid batteries). Last winter GM set up an electric car "project center," where it is working on an advanced zinc-nickel oxide battery with a range of 100 miles. GM EVs could be rolling off assembly lines as soon as the fall of 1983. Ford Motor Co. is working on a sodium-sulfur battery scheduled for lab tests...
...high hopes for the zinc-chloride system. "Its importance may well be equal to the development of the internal-combustion engine as it replaced the horse and buggy," says Judelson. In about nine months, G&W plans to have two prototype cars built, each with a range of 200 miles between charges. Fiddling with the chemistry could increase the range even more, he adds, with no increase in the system's weight of 544 kg (1,200 Ibs.). G&W calculates operating costs at 2.3? a mile for its Electric Engine, vs. 6.5? for a gasoline-powered equivalent...
...jutting, sculptural quality dissolved in ever more complicated faceting, "cubifying"?though there are no real cubes in cubism?through the landscapes he painted at Horta de Ebro in 1909. By 1910 the cubist surface was reached, with a sort of gray-brown plasma, the color of fiddle backs, zinc bars and smokers' fingers. Objects were sunk in a twinkling field of vectors and shadows, solid lapping into transparency, things penetrating and turning away, leaving behind the merest signs for themselves?a letter or two, the bowl of a pipe, the sound hole of a guitar. This sense of multiple...