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...order. Merrily, they ran from room to room, ripping down curtains for souvenirs, grabbing pieces of china. One soldier grabbed a calendar that bore Diem's picture, stuffed it in his shirt. Another made off with a two-foot Japanese doll that he hugged fondly to his breast...
...castration, which shuts off the supply of male sex hormones on which the cancer battens. The operation need not be surgical: it can also be done by X rays, or chemically with female hormones. The corresponding operation in women, removal of the ovaries, will spare many victims of spreading breast cancer. Huggins also showed that removal of the adrenals helps these women patients...
...Joan Tolentino) draws the scene of Iphigeneia's death in a panoply of colors: the yellow beard of the priest, the flowers blue and red and yellow; "I saw the white tents on the ocher sand, / And the staring eye-green sea, and all those men / In their silver breast-plates, and the stones / They laid her on, and the sleeves of her dress--" the saffron dress with the golden border. Then the black and white men of court return and Aegon thinks of "Lesbos when the beach turned gray" and "the gray stallion of the autumn." And finally Clytemnestra...
...usually silent incubation period. Another is that the babies are in a transition period between inherited and acquired immunity, and are therefore especially vulnerable. A third is that death may result from a violent immune reaction (anaphylactic shock) to cow's milk. But nobody knows for certain whether breast-fed babies are immune. The experts were unanimous on one point: they need more facts before they can prove or disprove any theory about the elusive causes of what they decided to call the "sudden death syndrome...
Prise Hartshorn, an ardent New Dealer, decides her baby should be weaned the modern way, on a bottle. Her husband, Sloan, a pediatrician, insists on breast feeting. "There was a side of Sloan, she had decided, that she mistrusted, a side that could be summed up by saying that he was a Republican. Up to now this had not mattered; most men she knew were Republicans--it was almost part of being a man. But she did not like the thought of a Republican controlling the destinies of a helpless baby...