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...investigators failed to ask most of the stricken students what it was exactly they ate. "They probably wouldn't remember that far back," Krause said, but nutritionists at the School of Public Health said yesterday that this criterion was one of the first concerns sanitary inspectors must address if there is a possibility of food poisoning...
...washed out;" for what it's worth, Auden was the greatest living English poet even in his decline. But it's still unfortunate--for us--that he ever had to decline at all. When a great poet dies at the height of his powers, we must be grief-stricken to think of what the loss of even a single day may have robbed us. But when a great poet dies after lapsing into a "classic fatigue" we can be more temperate. We are only sorry this meant we had to lose a poet before his time...
...market town of 9,000, the people were awakened at 3 a.m. on Sept. 20 to find their houses rocking under the battering of water that had surged over a nearby riverbank. "It was like a wild thing," Pablo Venture told TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich, who visited the stricken town last week. "Our house turned over and then vanished. Three of our children completely disappeared." Wiping his eyes with a dirty handkerchief, Juan Ramirez sobbed, "Dios mio! What has happened to us? My wife died, and now the water has taken seven of my beloved grandchildren...
Cautious Checks. The investigators found that eleven, or 7.3%, of 150 women with newly diagnosed breast cancer had been taking reserpine medicines, whereas only 2.2% of 1,200 patients without breast cancer (but otherwise similar to the cancer-stricken women in age and other characteristics) had taken them. They reanalyzed their data to rule out hypertension itself as a cause or accelerator of breast cancer and also found no association with the alternative hypertension drugs. Cautious to a degree and determined not to be alarmist, the Boston group invited eminent epidemiologists in England and Finland to run a similar check...
...were no doubt rolling in the aisles when the Crusader announcer told how, a few years ago, Harvard's was the first football team that managed to lose to a hepatitis-stricken Holy Cross squad. I'm not afraid to tell you that I was really yukking it up on that...