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...vibrations traveling up the arm as the racket meets the ball," he said, adding that the racket is more efficient than conventional rackets and improves control because players can find the sweetspot more easily. Durbin hopes to prevent mis-hits, a major cause and aggravator of his own ailment, tennis elbow...
...focus of the book. When his father, also a doctor, practiced medicine in the early 1900s, few doctors profitted financially and most felt helpless because they couldn't cure patients. Medical schools focused on diagnosis, the art--and as Thomas describes it, it was an art--of determining an ailment from a few external symptoms. They learned how to recognize illnesses without being able to treat them...
RECOVERING. Gary Coleman, 15, cheeky child star of television's Different Strokes; from an abscess around the site of his 1973 kidney transplant; in Los Angeles. The problem was discovered while he awaited a second donated kidney; the first is failing. Coleman suffers from nephritis, a congenital kidney ailment, and until a year ago took drugs that inhibited the disease (and stunted his growth; he is now 4 ft. 2 in.). When he is well enough, he will try again for a new transplant...
...ready to pursue well beyond the restraints of my own capabilities certain facets of the work in which I had been engaged. He is, indeed, all that you have said that he is. We all hope that his chemotherapy and radiation treatment will bring about a remission of his ailment, even a complete cure. Your article is a magnificent testimony to a great man. Francis W. Cleaves Professor of Far Eastern Languages, Emeritus
Hubbard's followers paid up to $40,000 to take Scientology courses that the church claimed could cure almost any physical or mental ailment. Some people spent hundreds of thousands in all. Says an IRS attorney who interviewed hundreds of members: "Many of them sincerely believed that Scientology helped their lives and made them better people." In the past the movement has attracted such celebrities as Hollywood's John Travolta and Television Sportscaster John Brodie, former star quarterback of the San Francisco 49ers...