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...succeeded quite well since then. Several thousand students have now received a sub-lethal dose of a few great books and some impressive ideas. They not only exchange them at cocktail parties, but sit up for hours in Holworthy or arguing about them. Those early-morning hours are when Gen Ed succeeds most...
...distance from metropolitan Boston, or the accidental detonation of a nuclear weapon--presents quite a different situation. In such an event, there may well be substantial radioactive fallout in the Cambridge and Boston areas. If such fallout occurs, it would very likely be in such quantities as to be lethal or highly dangerous to unsheltered persons, but much less harmful--or even harmless--to persons who were in sheltered spaces with a protective factor of 100 or more...
...baby seems well, parents must wait for as long as a year to see whether it will develop normally. By a mechanism not clearly understood, salt poisoning may cause irreversible damage to the brain. The tablespoonful of salt that many Binghamton babies had swallowed, said Dr. Finberg, was as lethal a dose as 4 lbs. of salt to an adult...
...have clear sailing all the way, however. It suffered a lethal production in London last summer, and was withdrawn after a fortnight. The "anonymous" Anthony Cookman of the London Times wrote of "what appears to be intended as a hilarious skit on the lonesco School of Playwrights," but found the direction and acting ruinously "heavy-handed...
Convinced that "tobacco, in the form of cigarettes, is a poison more lethal than the deadliest narcotic," Oregon's Democratic Senator Maurine Neuberger, who gave up her own addiction six years ago, vowed to "introduce legislation to deal with this tragic problem." Her probable bill: a new tax on cigarettes to subsidize cancer research...