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...three hours and plan anything." Beatty is also a health-food enthusiast and, as Nichols notes, "a postgraduate hypochondriac." He tells of the time that Beatty crossed wires making a call and overheard two strangers discussing the symptoms of a friend who was about to have her gall bladder removed. Beatty listened and then broke in: "Hey, she doesn't have gall bladder problems; she should be tested for hypoglycemia." Sure enough, he proved to be right...
...hour day at the office, a bright, up-and-coming young businessman went to a cocktail party given by his boss. A little nervous, he tossed back so many stiff highballs that he lost count. Feeling no pain, he proceeded to insult his host, lose control of his bladder, pass out on the floor, and was carried home. Was he fired for having disgraced himself so? No. This was Tokyo, not New York. When the young man returned to work the next day, not a word was spoken about the previous evening. In Japanese fashion, his behavior was not held...
Like all consumers of diet soda, University of Pittsburgh Physicist Bernard L. Cohen had every reason to be worried by the Canadian animal studies last year. The results seemed to indicate that the saccharin in low-calorie drinks and other artificially sweetened products would increase the risk of human bladder cancer. But, as a longtime researcher, Cohen knew that experimental results can often be misleading-and sometimes misinterpreted...
...pocket calculator, Cohen set out to compare the risk of continuing the consumption of diet soda with that of returning to ordinary high-calorie drinks. For starters, he writes in Science, he used projections made from the Canadian study. These showed that there would be 1,200 extra bladder cancers a year if each person in the U.S. drank one twelve-ounce diet drink per day for his entire life. Then Cohen divided the total number of cancers in the population by the total number of drinks. He multiplied the result by an average reduction of life expectancy...
DIED. Alton Carter, 89, President Carter's uncle and the oldest member of the Carter family; of gall bladder disease; in Americus, Ga. The mayor of Plains from 1924 to 1952, "Uncle Buddy" also ran a general store and for the past few years worked in his son's antiques store, where he was a popular raconteur...