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Land fever is not confined to the U.S. In England, the average price of a lot has doubled in two years. The cost of raw acreage outside Munich has risen nine hundredfold since the early 1950s. Urban real estate in Japan shot up 30% last year alone, and a square foot in downtown Tokyo now costs more than...
Harassment Policy. The Soviet navy's 465,000 men are also deadly serious about their chief task: a potentially lethal game of espionage and tag. Gorshkov's fleet has expanded its activity on the seas by three hundredfold in the last ten years, and much of its effort is devoted to a determined policy of harassment, probing and provocation. Across the oceans of the world, the light-grey-hulled Soviet warships are watching, trailing and sometimes crowdj ing the ships of the Western fleets, especially those of the U.S. Navy...
...Hundredfold Doses. Since the patients' responses to treatment could have been predicted in nearly every case by a laboratory test devised at Sloan-Kettering, there is no need to waste L-asparaginase by trying it blindly on patients unlikely to benefit. Side effects included fever, nausea, weight loss and allergic reactions but, said Dr. Oettgen, it is uncertain whether these were due to the enzyme or to contaminants...
Despite these drawbacks, the Memorial doctors would like to be able to give L-asparaginase in vastly bigger doses. In mice, small doses will temporarily suppress leukemia, and hundredfold-greater doses result in what seems to be a permanent cure. This, said Dr. Oettgen, raises the question whether massive doses of L-asparaginase, perhaps combined with other drug treatment, might actually cure one form of human leukemia...
...finance a flood of plants beyond England (where his company now accounts for 90% of lipstick-case output) to France (100%), Australia (80%) and elsewhere. With other companies (in printing, plastics, metalworking, warehousing) coming in along the way, Cope Allman's sales have multiplied more than a hundredfold in a decade...