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...Greek marantos, meaning withered or wasted). Marantologists would care for those whom no one else wants: the old, the incontinent and the incurable, those who have "committed the sin of remaining alive but not yielding to our manipulations." Those specialists, says Poe, would be taught to see their patients slip away without experiencing feelings of guilt or personal failure...
...polio vaccines until now have been made from killed or attenuated viruses grown in cultures of cells taken from monkey kidneys. The process and the vaccines are highly effective, but manufacturers-and some physicians-fear that other viruses lurking in the monkey kidneys may slip into the vaccine with unpredictable effects on the human recipient. One stray monkey virus has turned up in some vaccine samples. Many virologists believe that it would be better to make the vaccine from viruses grown in human cells, specifically in a strain developed by Dr. Leonard Hayflick and Dr. Paul S. Moorhead. Originally derived...
That adolescent is typical of the displaced Southerners, both black and white, about whom Coles writes in the second of his new books, The South Goes North. Four times Coles watched black Alabama and Mississippi families "slip away from the plantation or cabin and drive off with a look of relief and bitter joy and regret and sadness and triumph." Three times he went along with white families from West Virginia when they moved to Chicago, staying to observe the "settling in" process. But much of his time for six years was spent in regularly visiting ten white families...
...morning. It's vaguely amusing kid stuff that one can afford only when the rest of the world is asleep and hence need not be faced. It permits Williams and his cohorts to claim their integrity while--rather than selling their souls--they simply let their souls slip away. It breeds a self-satisfaction just shy of true self-contempt. Dealing may be the title, but double-dealing is the name of the game...
...there on other public business. His most elusive performance was on July 12, only hours after he had returned from his surreptitious trip to Peking. Arriving in Paris amid rumors that he might try to see the Communist negotiators, he was closely watched by reporters. Yet he managed to slip away for a four-hour talk with the North Vietnamese before he was spotted in Chez Garin (one of Michelin's two-star restaurants) with an attractive U.S. television producer, Margaret Osmer. It would perhaps be ungallant or even naive to say that Kissinger merely used her as a decoy...