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...since Slim Pickens rode a rocket to Russia in Dr. Strangelove, Stanley Kubrick's Cold War comedy classic, has a film stared so unabashedly down the throat of Armageddon. But whereas Dr. Strangelove's power stems from the way Kubrick's finger flirts with the Little Red Button, Tarkovsky presses the button down, then holds it, firmly, for two-and-a-half hours. The result is a film as difficult to assess as the Bomb itself, generating shockwaves of a political, moral, historical, and spiritual nature. The Sacrifice almost demands too much of the viewer, pushing him from breakdown...
...Globe reported that the 28-year-old student at Northeastern University said Hussey clutched the Iranian's throat, handcuffed him to a desk, choked him and screamed, "Why did you take American hostages? Why don't you go back to your own country...
There had been early warnings, a few cases reported around the country. But then 44 U.S. Navymen in Key West, Fla., began complaining of sore throats, fever and chills. Last week, after taking throat cultures from the men, doctors confirmed the bad news: Taiwan flu has arrived and begun to take its toll...
...will. A few words from the unfailingly suave sheik could make government officials shudder and cause stock markets from New York City to New Delhi to fall. With gallows humor, wags depicted OPEC at the height of its power as a highwayman who seizes his victim by the throat and cries, "Yamani or your life...
Recent research also shows a link between papillomavirus and cervical cancer, which annually strikes 15,000 women in the U.S. The human papillomavirus (HPV) family is a large one, including 46 types capable of causing everything from common plantar warts (HPV-1 and 4) to choking growths in the throat (HPV-11) to a bizarre warty rash found almost exclusively on the hands of butchers and meat handlers (HPV-7). So far, six types of HPV, all responsible for benign genital lesions, have also been associated with malignant cervical growths. Says Dr. Harald zur Hausen of the German Cancer Research...