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...pound bout. Colin Mangrum battled Cornell captain Ben Bishop to the end, but Bishop emerged with a fatal 7-6 victory. Stung by a second consecutive narrow loss, Lee admitted, "It was tight, but Bishop deserved...
...almost 200 years old, yet it is still far from being an invariably safe procedure. Although production methods have become more sanitary, the vaccine itself has changed little since Edward Jenner scraped it from sores on the hand of a cowpox-infected dairymaid. It causes severe and even fatal reactions in a small but appreciable number of people, with an average of seven deaths reported annually in the U.S. since 1950. Also, it probably leaves a greater number of victims with permanent mental damage from spread of the cowpox virus to the brain. Yet the U.S. has had no death...
...careful before giving the present vaccine. Children with leukemia, or on steroid drugs that depress the immune reaction, obviously should not be vaccinated. Nor should a child with eczema or a history of recent eczema be vaccinated-certainly not without VIG -because cowpox may cause a fulminating and occasionally fatal exacerbation of eczema. But doctors and nurses often do not take the time to ask the right questions...
...been the case the week before in Chicago, where police bullets killed Panther Leaders Fred Hampton and Mark Clark. After interviewing survivors and investigating ballistic evidence, Panther lawyers contend that the police burst in and began firing without warning, killing Clark in the first volley and pumping fatal shots into Hampton as he lay in bed. State's Attorney Edward Hanrahan, who organized the raid, denounced press and television accounts of the Panthers' story as "an orgy of sensationalism...
When Hedda Gabler's fatal pistol shot rang out offstage on opening night, a young woman in the second row quivered as if the bullet had entered her body, and the only sounds that those sitting near her heard thereafter, except for the last lines of the play, were her muffled sobs. On subsequent evenings, other women similarly wept. Laughter is always touted in the New York theater, but tears are too rare to go unmentioned. That is earned emotion, a spontaneous accolade to an extremely fine actress and a very great play...