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...Leukemia, reported the World Health Organization, has strange geographic preferences that might contain some valuable clues to the origin of the disease. In the U.S., mortality from leukemia is 50% higher in cities than in rural areas. The disease generally seems to thrive in a belt stretching across the north of the country, particularly west of the Mississippi. In New York City, it occurs twice as often among the Jewish population as among Protestants or Roman Catholics. Mortality from leukemia is high in the U.S., Denmark and Israel but relatively low in France, Ireland, Italy and Japan...
...break up that pattern, the ordinance banned "discrimination because of race, color, religion, national origin or ancestry" in all housing transactions, including mortgage loans. It provided for a board to investigate complaints and, if private persuasion fails, to order corrective action. Anybody found guilty by a court of violating a board order could be jailed for six months, fined...
...world. Cairo's voice bears many accents. There is the overt Voice of the Arabs, and a whole concatenation of '"Voices" (Voice of the Arab Nation, Free Voice of Iran, Voice of Free Africa, etc.), which bleat incitement to rebellion with no identification of their Egyptian origin. The transmitting complex is elaborate and devilishly clever. Recently, Somali-language transmissions have supported the claims of Somalia to a portion of northeast Kenya, while Swahili broadcasts aimed at Kenya denounce the idea. A U.S. construction firm is building a new transmitter, which will be beamed at Tunisia and aimed...
...most famous homes in the country," says Ward. "Sir Winston Churchill and many leading politicians have been among my patients; Prince Philip, the Duke and Duchess of Kent and Lord Snowdon have been among my sitters." Ward also had a genuine interest in young girls of humble origin. "I like pretty girls," he says. "I am sensitive to the needs and the stresses of modern living." To the great and near great. Ward introduced "attractive young girls like Christine Keeler, who come from the provinces or the remote suburbs" and for whom "London is a battlefield...
...Moscow last week, one might have thought Madison Avenue had been moved to Gorky Street. First came endorsement of blue jeans, a commodity the Kremlin had always disdained as a capitalist fad worn only by parasites. Nonsense, declared Izvestia, "Texas trousers" are "very useful," adding reassuringly that "the origin of blue jeans is not with Hollywood movie stars, but with real cowboys, who don't take part in wild chases and romantic gunplay, but in honest and hard work...