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Continually they would awaken me to do these tests, and continually it was determined that I should reduce my salt intake if I wished to avoid heart trouble in about 30 years. My arm must have forecast the arrival of these tests, because it soon began to contract itself in anticipation...
After keeping his schoolteacher wife Jonda awake through much of Sunday night by tossing and turning in bed, McFarlane failed to respond when she tried to awaken him Monday morning. He stirred only when she shook him, and then appeared to be, in her words, "semilucid." Fearing that he had suffered a stroke, Jonda summoned a rescue squad. By the time it arrived she had discovered a note left by her husband, whose contents no one would divulge. Before an ambulance rushed him to nearby Bethesda Naval Hospital, the groggy McFarlane mumbled something to its crew about taking...
...January, when Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze traveled to Tokyo. Since then, Moscow has wooed Tokyo with diplomatic concessions and hints of a Gorbachev visit, perhaps as early as January. In Vladivostok, Gorbachev pointedly called for "profound cooperation" between Moscow and Tokyo. Japan has the technology Moscow needs to awaken the sluggish Soviet economy and develop gas and oil deposits in the Soviet Far East...
...quiescent, expressing only five to ten of their 70 genes, that the immune system fails to detect them. Occasionally, for reasons that are poorly understood but that usually involve stress, fatigue, sexual activity and even sunburn, the immune system can no longer keep the hibernating viruses in check; they awaken, reproduce and head for the skin. "As long as the virus remains latent in the ganglia, it remains shielded," says Bernard Roizman, a leading herpes researcher at the University of Chicago. As a result, no permanent cure for herpes exists, and none is in sight...
April 15: STUDENTS AWAKEN TO SHANTYTOWN IN THE YARD...