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...Hollywood. The night view of Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, 1931, is straight out of a Disney animation, and indeed the influence of Walt on Wood looks stronger than is usually acknowledged. In his curious Death on the Ridge Road, 1935, a painting of an impending car crash, the fatal truck coming over the brow of the hill has its wheels off the ground and skewed in the exact convention of cartoons...
...jitters rise, Israel warns Syria against "a fatal mistake...
Gone for the moment was any thought of an immediate withdrawal of Syrian, Palestinian and Israeli forces from Lebanon, as envisioned by the recently signed Israeli-Lebanese accord. Warned Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir: "We hope Syria won't make a fatal mistake." Later the Syrians said that the purpose of the maneuvers was purely defensive, leading Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Arens to declare that "if true," the statement was "good news...
...epidemic is ravaging America's cats. About 10% of the 40 million cats in the U.S. are victims of a type of leukemia that attacks the animals' immune systems and is usually fatal. The disease, which does not affect humans or other animals, is easily transmitted among cats. For the past 2½ years, Norden Laboratories, a Nebraska-based division of the SmithKline Beckman drug company, has been working on a vaccine that inhibits the growth of leukemia in cats. Says Product Manager Reynolds Davis: "If everything goes smoothly, we could have a product out in 1984." With...
...impact of major life events on health has been reconfirmed many times. A study published earlier this year in the British medical journal Lancet reported that the incidence of fatal heart attacks rose sharply in Athens in the days following the 1981 earthquake there. Stanford Neurochemist Barchas has found that a high score on the Holmes-Rahe scale is linked to elevated levels of the hormones associated with stress: adrenaline (which scientists have re-christened epinephrine), norepinephrine and beta-endorphin. An Australian study of bereavement has shown that eight weeks after the death of their spouses, widows and widowers have...