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...despite all reasonable precautions, the baby is defective, today's surgery and medicine offer far more hope of alleviating the condition than before World War II. Many severe abnormalities in and around the heart, once crippling and eventually fatal, are now corrected by daring surgery. "Water on the brain" (hydrocephalus) can be drained away by ingenious valves and tubes...
...business and 15 times earnings for electronic and silicon, or a total of 21 times earnings. Multiply this by two for furth-burners, and we now have a score of 42 times earnings for the new company." Concluded Dreyfus dryly: "In today's market, studying securities can be fatal. While you're studying them, they're apt to double, and by the time you find you wouldn't have bought them in the first place they will probably have tripled...
...condition need not be fatal, Drs. Paul L. Wolf and Murray B. Levin suggest. A few months later they suspected beriberi in a man of 54, and added massive doses of B1 to the battery of drugs they gave him. His heart was saved. Shoshin beriberi, they conclude, deserves more attention...
...First there were U.S. WACs, then a demoktirasi-style Japanese girl with knapsack and climbing boots. The beleaguered priests enlisted villagers to turn back any woman they found approaching the mountain. They rebuilt the trail to the top, making it difficult even for experienced climbers. But then came the fatal proclamation of the miko in Nara prefecture...
...there is nothing fatal or final to point to. In Britain, the Tories still hold the husk of the Establishment and hope in the upcoming elections to make it "Four in a Row." The new element is the familiar Anti-Nuclear Bomb movement of today, but in FitzGibbon's time its pony-tailed and sandaled youth has swollen into the biggest political fact in Britain, led by zealots and exploited by those who know that pacifism cannot help but help the Russians. And when, in a landslide-election win, the anti-Bomb boys and girls take power...