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Make a cross on your abdomen...
Using a high-energy X-ray beam, researchers at Stanford administered a total of 2,000 rads of radiation (less than half the dosage for Hodgkin's disease) to the lymph nodes of the neck, chest, abdomen, thymus gland and spleen. Patients were treated five days a week for five weeks. Within a month, all the patients started to improve; six months after the irradiation, disagreeable symptoms such as morning stiffness, pain and swelling within the joints were all significantly reduced...
...surgical procedure offers a double benefit to mastectomy patients. Using a section of fat and muscle from the abdomen, Atlanta Plastic Surgeon Dr. Carl Hartrampf replaces missing breasts and gives women a bonus "tummy tuck" in the process. A section of the rectus abdominis, one of the two large muscles that run vertically from the ribs to the pelvis, is removed, along with a surrounding island of skin and fat. The large artery supplying blood to the region is left intact. The skin of the chest is sliced free of its underlying tissue, and the entire mass is moved into...
...four days. After the second day, they introduced a new feature to the game. Two men locked their legs in mine and held me spread-eagled against the wall. Then a third would run at me from the opposite wall and drive his knee into my lower abdomen and testicles. The pain was unbearable...
More troubling is the realization that under questioning, even the most sophisticated Angel will recite stories of gang wars won, bullets whizzing overhead and knife wounds to the abdomen. We should certainly wonder whether Sliwa's expansion program will attract public-spirited kids concerned about purse snatchers or toughs who are only too happy to find a sanctioned duty as inner-city commandoes...