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...quite simple and the lighting rudimentary. There is no ghost--Gielgud speaks his lines while a shadow plays on the curtain. This is Hamlet pared to the bone, without "theatricality...
Although English scholarship is rapidly advancing, few teachers take the trouble to keep up, or even to bone up on basic English teaching. In the past nine years, the average elementary teacher, who spends at least one quarter of her time teaching English, has taken four times more formal course work in "education" than in English, including only half a course in the teaching of reading, a subject that she barely touched in college. In ten years, only one out of seven high school English teachers has taken as much as one three-hour English course. Almost a third...
...Multiply. The spleen, lymph nodes and bone marrow manufacture white blood cells of a type known as lymphocytes, which are loaded with antibody ammunition to battle any invader. They attack a transplant much as they would fight an army of diseasecausing virus particles. But transplant patients' lymphocytes show more hostility to cells from some donors than from others. Dr. Kurt Hirschhorn and Dr. Fritz Bach of New York University School of Medicine noted that when lymphocytes from two people of widely different ethnic groups were put together in a test tube, the cells became overactive; they enlarged and multiplied...
...spider man in the freak show and the gangling giant on the basketball court may have a common bond. Marfan's syndrome, first recognized in 1896 by French Pediatrician Bernard-Jean Antonin Marfan, is marked by excessive long-bone growth; it gives people elongated arms, legs, fingers and toes, angular heads and faces. One of the surest signs of Marfan's syndrome is a condition known as arachnodactyly-a spidery hand with long, slender fingers of exceptional dexterity. Many such people succumb to some form of heart disease early in life. One suspected Marfan type who escaped this...
...enemies of sleep have changed more in kind than in quantity, it still seems fairly certain that modern man sleeps less than his ancestors did. Some reasons are clear: generations ago, men did a great deal more physical work; they got plain tired, or downright bone-weary. And before Mr. Edison's electric bulb turned night into a gaudy imitation of day, it was hard on the eyes to read, write or sew after dark...