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...themselves, nature slips up. Instead of splitting them into two neat rows of 23 each, it leaves an extra X or Y in one row. If the supernumerary is an X, the baby has an XXY pattern and will grow into a sterile, asthenic "male," usually with some breast enlargement and mental retardation-a condition that physicians call Klinefelter's syndrome...
...orgy of breast-beating confessions was reminiscent of the old days, but the roles were curiously reversed. At Prague's Hradčany castle last week, deposed Party Boss Antonín Novotný led members of his old guard in recanting past mistakes before the Communist Party's Central Committee. He had, Novotný admitted, been guilty of "serious errors and aberrations" that had left "a dark stain" on the country. The reformers, many of whom had been humiliated by worse rituals in the past, did not linger long over their triumphal moment. After days of debate...
...concessions boil down to a willingness to conduct any kind of activity in the city's 55 public schools that Mott Foundation officials feel will contribute to "the total education" of the city. In adult courses, that means lessons in everything from breast feeding to small-boat handling, from arithmetic to advanced cake decoration. A Sunday "coffeehouse" lecture series takes up such questions as "Why does love escape us?" and "Am I a slave to circumstance or free?" There are discussions of race relations (Flint is 22% Negro) and such religious questions as "Is God dead...
...both the 100-meter butterfly (55.7 sec.) and the 200-meter butterfly (2 min. 5.7 sec.), needs only to pare a total of seven seconds off his best times to set records in the 100-meter, 200-meter and 400-meter freestyle and the 200-meter individual medley (breast stroke, backstroke and crawl). At last year's Pan American games in Winnipeg, he won five gold medals. The only way anybody is likely to keep his score that low in next fall's Mexico City Olympics is by scheduling events simultaneously...
...donor is already certified by the most experienced neurosurgeons and neurologists, he said. As for the radical nature of the operation, Barnard felt that the decision to remove a dying man's heart "may not be as difficult as the decision to remove a young woman's breast because of a lump...