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...vividly seeing Erich Segal for the first time on a night last December, somewhere in the bowels of Vanserg Hall. He was lecturing to some Humanities 3 students on the drama of Euripides. His style was pure enthusiasm. Eschewing the podium, hopping about like a praying mantis with a bladder problem, he leaned into our faces to make a point or answer a question, suddenly pulling back to continue his remarks. Small and thin, he did not appear especially athletic, though he runs marathons. He was a bit darker than I had expected. Black, thinning curly hair framed a rather...
That record is safe. Last week, after only three hours in their chairs, the beaming delegates stood up and took a 20-minute break-a touch of civility that will become standard in future sessions. Thus, while the Korean conflict is still unresolved, the great Bladder War, as the Panmunjom talks have become known, is over...
...continue to smoke cigarettes (about 44 million Americans, by P.H.S. estimate) Steinfeld's latest report contained still more bad news. Already indicted as the major cause of lung cancer and, in combination with heavy drinking, cancer of the esophagus, smoking is now damned as a cause of bladder cancer and is strongly suspected of causing cancer in the pancreas. Steinfeld also said that there is stronger evidence than ever of the malign effects of smoking on a variety of heart, artery and lung conditions...
...several substances that may accumulate as "stones" in the gall bladder, cholesterol is the most common culprit. Because doctors have not known how to dissolve such stones, the usual remedy has been surgery-an estimated 350,000 operations annually in the U.S. Researchers at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., now report in the New England Journal of Medicine that, in four cases out of seven, doses of a natural body chemical have succeeded in dissolving cholesterol gallstones. This type of stone, it appears, forms when bile (a digestive substance secreted in the liver and stored in the gall bladder...
...pump is an improved model of the device developed in 1966 by Kantrowitz and his brother Arthur, a physicist. Made of silicone rubber and Dacron, the booster is deceptively simple in construction. Six inches long and shaped like a cigar, it consists of two tubes, a balloon-like outer bladder surrounding a narrow tube, with an air hose that leads from the outer tube to a helium-powered driving unit and compressed air tank outside the body...