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...secret, last week let some good news out: the north Burma campaign was greatly helped by the drug atabrine, which kept troops on their feet for at least 80 days and let only 20% break down after that. Added to the earlier report that the malaria rate in New Guinea had been cut 95% during the year (TIME, June 26), this indicated that the disease can no longer stop armies in their tracks...
...Michael's Cathedral at Alexishaven, a modest pile, was nevertheless one of the oldest buildings in New Guinea, which meant that it was around 50 years old. And it was a church; B-25 pilots disliked the job of destroying it. But it looked as if they would have to do it: Fifth Air Force intelligence learned that it was being used by the Japs as a military storehouse...
...hope against tuberculosis was reported in Science last week. A green mold believed to be of the penicillium family it attacks the tubercle bacillus. Its discoverers, Drs. David Kimball Miller and Albert Carl Rekate of the University of Buffalo School of Medicine, reported promising results on guinea pigs...
Human tuberculosis germs treated with the mold were injected in 24 guinea pigs. Six died of T.B. The other 18 did not contract the disease, although an equal dose of the germs, not treated with the mold, was almost 100% fatal to a group of control animals...
...University of Illinois last week offered a cold-weather tip: eat more often, change to a fattier diet. At 20 below zero, human guinea pigs, who in an eight-hour period ate three meals high in fats and carbohydrates (starch and sugar) at two-hour intervals, had higher body temperature and better coordination than those who ate one meal rich in protein (e.g., meat...