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...radio-documentary writer, Stoler began writing TIME'S Medicine section 2½ years ago and now cuts his way through eight to ten medical journals a week. "I reduce things to terms that I can understand, and I figure if I can understand them, I can make the reader understand them," he says. "The challenge is to take a fairly complex procedure and explain it in simple, everyday language without losing any accuracy...
...machine, the author argues in effect, why not let him choose the less ignominious old organic pain of being an animal? Much of this sounds modish and empty. But Margaret Atwood, alternately satirical and lyrical, is a mistress of controlled hysteria. She skillfully presses her polarized universe upon her reader and indeed upon her race. She may be excessively hard on civilization. But, as only a really gifted writer can, she turns paranoia into art, forcing her rapidly industrializing fellow countrymen - her rap idly overindustrializing world - to contemplate the hate in the bloody eye of one of their victims...
...Eliot House office has issued all students and tutors these cards, which trip the lock by a magnetic "code" within the card. When the card is placed in the reader located next to the door, the magnetic code is signaled to a computer memory unit in the chilled water plant north of the Yard. If the card's code matches the memory unit, the door is automatically unlocked. Edward Delaney, night superintendent for Eliot House, said yesterday that the door was effective Saturday night in keeping wanderers out of the House. "People who were drunk and just looking for parties...
Moynihan proposes two main theses: Nixon's FAP was radical reform, and only a conservative executive could institute such a liberal program. He repeats these themes over and over until the reader is praying to be just simply left alone...
Observing their 18-year-old brethren ordering "exotic drinks" at Charlie's on liberation night, they tell us of a mysterious alcoholic ingredient called "Quantro." (Like that old familiar red wine, Bojolay.) Worse still, they counsel the reader--and also, it seems, the hapless bartender at Charlie's--on "Mai Tai's." "In point of fact," confide the knowing Dake and Decherd, "it is the drink which President Nixon shared with Chou En-Lai in Peking last February." They should have added that Pat Nixon wore a hula skirt while Mrs. Mao Tse-tung dished out poi at the Peking...