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There seems to be a consensus in America that legal immigration, at the very least, has a benign effect upon our society. At best, the innovative ideas and new frames of reference which legal immigrants bring with them serve as a virtual blood transfusion for the American political, economic and social systems. Despite the fact that the virtues of legal immigration are widely extolled, immigrants are still denied the right to run for president of their country...
...FIBROIDS in retreat? A preliminary trial finds that the benign tumors shrink markedly when doctors inject uterine arteries with a solution containing tiny plastic particles. The injections cut off the blood supply to the fibroids--apparently without harming the uterus...
...Center in Seattle, studied 267,000 Chinese women in Shanghai and enrolled about half, 133,375 in an intensive self-examination program. Thomas said "there was no difference" in the rates of either cancer deaths or in cancer detection, although women who performed the examinations found twice as many benign tumors than the women in the control group. This study is the first to suggest the exams may not make a significant difference. "So far, we don't have a hint that it does any good," Thomas said. "But in order to get a final word on this, we will...
RECOVERING. ELIZABETH TAYLOR, 64, from surgery to remove a 2-in. brain tumor, which, doctors say, appears to be benign; in Los Angeles...
...Abbiennia, on the other hand, is pious, Catholic and freedom loving, and it goes to war against the Glandelinians to liberate the tots. In its struggles it is led by seven little princesses called the Vivian sisters (shades of Enid Blyton and Ethel M. Dell!). They are aided by benign dragonlike beasts called Blengins. Virtue triumphs in the end--over whole landscapes of child corpses. Since Darger probably began writing the work between 1910 and 1912, it's likely that his unreadable Iliad of two nations contending over slavery was a delayed response to the great trauma affecting his father...