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...stricken Fisher had not played all week. In fact, he had decided to play only that morning, despite having a temperature, He had not even warmed up, dressing only five minutes before his match...
Iron Will. Associates remember that in 1949, when his horse fell on him, crushing 23 of his 24 ribs, Douglas was undaunted: he was back on the bench six months later. In childhood he confounded doctors' expectations that his polio-stricken legs would forever be useless. In addition, Douglas knows that a Ford-nominated successor might well tip the court into pronounced conservativism, a result that would seem a disaster to the old liberal...
...comparison with the great influenza epidemics, the plague that hit Minnesota recently was a trivial affair. One hundred and twenty-five people were stricken with nausea and diarrhea after eating in a local restaurant. No one died in the outbreak, but about 50 were sufficiently sick to consult physicians, eleven were afflicted seriously enough to require hospitalization, and many were bedridden for one or more days. Normally, such an outbreak, which was traced to Salmonella bacteria, receives little attention from health authorities...
...parties and award dinners, often accompanied by TIME'S celebrity-hunting paparazzi. Fortunately Mallet explains, quips often since most of the people we talk to are under the in fluence of something." Unfortunately, Macintosh points out, some call the next morning and ask to have their best quotes stricken from the record...
...were all kinder to each other or more understanding; the world's social system, as he sees it, is basically sound. In fact, it is often the system itself which is the problem. Excessive population growth is not a metaphysical condition, it is a social sickness which has stricken countries ravaged by colonialism, or which ignore extreme internal inequalities. A landless laborer in Indonesia would be crazy not to have all the children he could: he gets paid by the hand. Trying to institute "reforms" such as literacy to lower fertility without removing the social causes of high fertility rates...