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...American poet is to be transcendent and new." Farewell to Henry Adams' Virgin, to the Renaissance and Gothic nostalgia that had assuaged the cultural elites of New York and Boston at the end of the 19th century; welcome to the dynamo, to the total plan, the slick shell housing, the fins and flanges, the didactic sheen of stainless steel, the Aztec-style bracelet of imperishable Bakelite. Goodbye, Hell's Kitchen; hello, skyscraper...
These studies have demonstrated that a laser system powerful enough to destroy or disable missiles would also be able to destory aircraft, ships and entire cities. The amount of energy required to burn through the shell of an unprotected missile is about 120 times that required to ignite typical construction materials...
Union activists sit-in at the offices of Harvard's 350th anniversary planning committee to protest Harvard's links to Shell Oil, which does business in South Africa. The protesters leave in time for the 11 o'clock news after being told they will be arrested if they stay the night...
Although silent ischemia was identified nearly two decades ago, the attention it received at last week's annual scientific meeting of the American Heart Association in Dallas reflected a growing awareness that it is a formidable medical problem. Says Cardiologist William Shell, of the University of California, Los Angeles: "It may be silent, but it can be deadly...
Some doctors, after diagnosing ischemia, prescribe nitroglycerin, calcium blockers and other drugs that relax constricted arteries or slow the heart rate. Shell favors nitroglycerin patches applied to his patients' skin. "We don't have proof that this lowers the risk of heart attack," he says, "but anecdotally, I can tell you that my patients are doing better." Others have used bypass surgery (which allows blood to circumvent clogged arteries) or balloon angioplasty (to widen arterial passageways) against the silent attacks...