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When the Swedish Academy announced the literature prize in October, Seifert was in the hospital suffering from diabetes and a heart ailment. He has now returned home, but can move about only with the aid of a metal crutch. Too frail to travel, he will be represented at this week's Nobel ceremonies by Son Jaroslav and Daughter Jana. Although he is usually unwilling to be interviewed by Western journalists, Seifert received TIME Editor in Chief Henry Grunwald and Eastern Europe Correspondent John Moody in his comfortable, slightly threadbare second-floor apartment in Prague. The 90-min. interview took...
Mudge said Boucher's treatment was complicated by a kidney ailment caused by the large doses of drugs needed to supress his body's rejection of the heart...
This weekend, the team suffered from the same ailment that has plagued it all year: inability to play as a unit...
...Researchers have found antibodies to the virus or the virus itself in large numbers of gay men who appear to be healthy. Says Laurence: "There must be some mechanism for immunity that we don't yet understand." Curiously, the antibodies do not appear to ensure protection against the ailment...
Many of the artists identified by Psychologist Jamison as manic-depressives were also suicides, alcoholics or drug addicts. Perhaps the illness contributed to their creativity. But when left untreated, that same ailment may also have led to their destruction...