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Joseph Heller's pen pal // Author and crony tell two humorous views of road to recovery
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EAST HAMPTON, N.Y. The last time I had talked with Joseph Heller, it
was the summer of 1984. His upper lip was still partly paralyzed by
the mysterious malady that had felled him in late 1981. He had
trouble forming "m" sounds, making it hard for a deaf lip-reader to
understand him.
But a year later, riding in his car from the railroad station to
his home in this Long Island resort town, I could detect in his
speech no remnant of Guillain-Barre syndrome. His step was firm, his
gestures controlled, his driving relaxed.
Beginning just before Christmas, 1981, Guillain-Barre, a
paralytic ...
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Sweet chemistry.(sugar)(Brief article)
Magazine article from: Chemistry International
; ...only in 1747 that a German analytical chemist, Andreas Sigismund Marggraf (1709-1782) announced the discovery of sugar...the development of the sugar industry, namely Andreas Marggraf, his student Franz Karl Achard (1753-1821...
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