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...awful was going to happen. It was better that he didn't, because he intended to look DuPont in the eye and say, "Write a novel sir," to which DuPont would have snorted "Balderdash!" or something equally puerile. But Shapiro was fascinated by what was moving up from his gastro-intestinal tract; slowly yes, but inexorably moving, and he felt the way pharoah's charioteers must have felt when they saw the Red Sea falling in on them, and nowhere to run. Up, up, up it came--and there it was, he figured he might as well make it good...
...there are ever three or more cases of acute gastro-intestinal disease, then Harvard's Department of Health and Environmental Safety gets activated," he said...
...Harvard undergraduates were hospitalized and 19 treated yesterday for gastro-intestinal disorders that may have been caused by food poisoning from Sunday brunch in the Houses, doctors at University Health Service said yesterday...
...Sholem Postel, associate director of UHS, said yesterday that over 20 cases "is much more than what we would call sporadic gastro-enteritis [stomach inflammation] but this type of thing may come in waves, or viruses...
...sarcomas and cancers besides mesothelioma. Selikoff, the leading authority in this area of asbestos research, subsequently examined mortality figures for 18,000 American and Canadian asbestos workers. He found that the death rate among them from lung cancer was six times that found in the general population. Deaths from gastro-intestinal cancer or cancer of the esophagus were respectively four and six times more prevalent than normal. Worst of all, the death ratio for mesothelioma indicated that it occurred 100 times more frequently among asbestos workers than in the general population, or in one of every 100 workers...