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...high temperatures of reentry. If Soyuz was indeed tumbling upon reentry, as many U.S. experts believe, its unshielded surfaces would also have been exposed to the direct frictional effects of the atmosphere. As these surfaces began to burn up, temperatures in the spacecraft cabin would quickly have reached fatal levels...
Eczema afflicts nearly half a million U.S. children under six - a statistic that can have serious consequences at vaccination time. An eczematous child inoculated against smallpox with the standard cowpox-virus vaccine may develop a severe and possibly fatal combination of cowpox and eczema known as eczema vaccinatum. Now the University of Colorado's Dr. C. Henry Kempe has resolved the conflict between the child's safety and the requirement for preschool vaccination...
Drivers of independent trucks use bennies to stay awake and make longer runs, but major fleet operators sternly forbid them. When amphetamine stimulation wears off, it may do so abruptly and put the driver to sleep at 60 m.p.h. In several fatal accidents, highway police have found a half-emptied bag of bennies in the driver's pocket, and autopsies have revealed as many as a dozen in a driver's stomach. With severe overdosage, though the driver stays awake, he may have hallucinations and see "ghosts" on the highway, with equally fatal results...
...rusty encrustations of habit, custom and tradition as he elucidates his proofs that the earth revolves around the sun. This Galileo is a glutton of food, wine and ideas. As one character says, he has "thinking bouts." As Brecht sees it, this very appetite is Galileo's fatal flaw. His desire to save his skin ranks above any devotion to a pure priesthood of science, any will to suffer death for the truths he had discovered...
Birnbaum and Ruhe say that Hale told them, in Austin, "You guys are in big trouble. You committed the fatal mistake; you created a huge coalition against you. The mayor has called the governor of this state and the President of the United States...