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...place any faith in Steven Spielberg films like E.T. and Close Encounters of the Third Kind, the visitors from outer space are benign and friendly folk. But several recently reported episodes have been more sinister. High on the best-seller lists this past summer stood Communion by Whitley Strieber, previously known mainly as a writer of fantasies (The Wolfen, Warday), who vehemently describes as a "true story" his chilling account of being spirited onto a spaceship by a pack of 3-ft.-high "visitors." When they proposed sticking a needle into his brain, he recalls, one of them casually asked...
...Susan Lazarchick, the decision to undergo an experimental knee transplant was frighteningly simple. A benign tumor the size of a grapefruit was rapidly consuming her right knee and shinbone. Doctors had offered her two other options: amputation, or a bone fusion, which would render her stiff-legged for the rest of her life. She chose the rarely performed transplant. Last week Orthopedic Surgeon Richard Schmidt at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia announced that he had transplanted an entire knee -- bones, cartilage, tendons, ligaments and all -- from an accident victim into the leg of the young...
...small tour. If asked, she will consider seeing the Stones again ("I would like to see them, perhaps just once, to acknowledge my past, give it a bow"), but speaks with real respect and affection about the caring attention of her friend Island Records Founder Chris Blackwell. Under his benign guidance, she felt "no pressure to do anything. I was given a little allowance, a house was found, and . . . live your life a day at a time. And I did that. And I started to get well...
...paucity of course offerings in the department this year cannot legitimately be explained away solely by its size. The problem calls for attention from University Hall, not benign neglect. First, the University must smooth the path for joint appointments. There is cause for optimism on this point, as Huggins met this week with Deans A. Michael Spence and Phyllis Keller to work on more effective appointment processes...
About one out of twelve black Americans carries a single gene for sickle-cell anemia. That trait, doctors have long believed, is basically benign, since the blood disorder strikes only when two defective genes are present. But a report in last week's New England Journal of Medicine challenges this assumption. In a study of more than 2 million military recruits, doctors at Washington's Armed Forces Institute of Pathology found that sickle-cell carriers run 40 times the normal risk of sudden death when they undergo the rigors of basic training. The danger appears to increase with...