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...spent most of the week working on minimizing the effects of the Multiflex. [Harvard quarterback Ron] Cuccia should be difficult to contain, but at least, they don't have any Callinans," Naso said, adding, "At least, I hope they don't have another Callinan...
...AIDS victims and then inoculated them into specially bred marmosets, at a cost of $25,000 for testing on each animal. Unfortunately, as Curran points out, "it is not known whether there is a transmissible agent, whether the patients we're studying harbor it, which body secretion may contain it, and whether marmosets are an appropriate species...
...undergone tests at a 31,500-gal. spill in the Mississippi River 20 miles downstream from New Orleans. The oil had spread over a 14-mile area, washing into coves and turning the marshy ground into a black mush the locals call "gumbo." While strings of floating booms helped contain the spill, a four-man team from Peterson Maritime Services, the largest private firm in the gulf area treating oil spills, began tossing out about 100 lumpy white squares from their flat-bottomed swamp boats. Almost at once, the muck began to stick to the pillows. When they were pulled...
...reality, lower-calorie beer boils down to less brew for the money. Not only do most light brands carry premium-brand prices, they contain less grain and more water. In spite of the dilution, such beers are not all that much lower in calorie content than normal beers. Observes newspaper Beer Columnist Steve Byers of the Milwaukee Journal: "The calorie difference between a light beer and a premium beer is five potato chips. Why get a worse taste and flat beer for five potato chips...
First, it seemed inappropriate to send an official message to a foreign ambassador complaining about opposition from U.S. citizens in an essentially domestic dispute. Second, Watt's letter seemed to contain an implicit, cynical threat: if American dependence on Arab oil becomes too great, the U.S. might find it politically expedient to temper its support of Israel...