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...number of American casualties within the shortest time period. They are banking on the shock value to merge with uninformed opinion in the U.S. to put pressure on the Johnson Administration to get out of Viet Nam." In purely military terms, of course, Hanoi's objective is to pin down the greatest possible number of American troops in the defensive position most favorable to the North Vietnamese, thus markedly reducing U.S. pressure on the Communist forces operating in the rest of I Corps...
...believe in angels because of his need to account for the fearful things he could not see or understand. Many contemporary Christian theologians concede the mythic character of most religious references to angels. Although unable to say for sure how many angels can dance on the head of a pin, Davidson otherwise has come to several conclusions about them as a group. Most are male, and their principal language is Hebrew-one reason, perhaps, why 11,000 angels are alleged to guard every Jew. Davidson, of course, also knows whom to send to the aid of any woman who happens...
...Kill. When it came to pin pointing the causes of leukemia, the researchers were still at a loss. But there was no doubt about effects. The National Cancer Institute's Dr. C. Gordon Zubrod reported that by the time a leukemia patient is ill enough for his disease to be diagnosed, he usually has 1012 (or 1 trillion) leukemic cells in his blood. His physician must try to kill all these abnormal cells without killing or damaging too many of the normal cells. In the trade, said Dr. Zu brod, each factor of ten in that trillion cells...
...name was Judy, I beat him with my rolling-pin...
...teacher is attuned to the right answer, and will assume it was given. They fence-straddle, avoid commitment, live for the teacher's approving "yes." It becomes so automatic, Holt writes, that when he selects a number between 1 and 10,000 and asks his students to pin it down by quizzing him, his own "no" to the student who asks if it is "be tween 5,000 and 10,000" brings groans, even though the no is as informative...