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Heteroplasia. Gradually, the circumspect Vatican began to reveal the truth of the Pope's illness: he had "gastric heteroplasia"-a tumor, perhaps cancerous (although only surgery could tell), that caused hemorrhages and anemia. Unable to hold down food, the Pope was being fed intravenously. One of Italy's best anesthesiologists, Dr. Piero Mazzoni, moved into the Vatican on 24-hour watch to administer transfusions, coagulants and morphine injections-the only treatments, since surgeons had decided against an operation or radiation treatments...
Conservatives among Southern Baptists deeply fear that questioning the literal truth of the Bible will kill their church by scriptural anemia; liberals deeply fear that clinging to the literal Bible will make their church wither and die of a quaint unreality. Last week in Kansas City. 12,670 "messengers" to the annual assembly of the 10,200,000-member church reflected this split by electing a conservative president and passing a string of liberally oriented resolutions. Frontrunner, as the assembly opened, was the Rev. Carl Bates of Charlotte. N.C., who seemed to have doubts about the oldtime conservative religion: "Laymen...
Heavy Water. With Dr. Oliver Cope, then his chief, Moore studied the anemia of bum victims and their liability to blood clotting in their
...work of jazzmen. Dave Brubeck has been an ardent explorer of quiet waters, but the classic case of the Juilliard blues afflicts John Lewis, whose fascination with the baroque and the commedia dell' arte has led his Modern Jazz Quartet into music of great cerebration and even greater anemia. Lewis' music often seems too fragile even to be called jazz; but now a new group of jazz composers has arrived with the claim that they are uniquely "serious"-a priggish way of saying that they've been to school...
...problem last year was the team's inability to score. Unless some of the youngsters have great years the pitching staff could be in for another season of close losses. Jim Gentile (.251) and Boog Powell (.243) were two major reasons for the club's severe affliction of plate anemia. If they, and Brooks Robinson (.303) can have a good season together, the Birds will...