Word: bladders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ship. Aboard the trim (250 ft.), Swedish-operated M.S. Lindblad Explorer on a recent trip from Tokyo to Hong Kong were 103 single-class passengers paying about $3,500, two American Sinologists and three tour guides, led by Travel Entrepreneur Lars-Eric Lindblad, known to the Chinese as Lin-bladder. The group included TIME Senior Writer Michael Demarest and old China hands Photographer Carl Mydans and his reporter-wife Shelley...
Every so often they'd file us off the bus for meal breaks, coffee breaks and bladder breaks. We would take in a local place, like Joe's Real Bar-B-Q Cafe in Amarillo, where the patrons still wear cowboy hats and look askance at anyone who saunters in with a Maoist cap on his long haired head. I ate fast and left before the posse arrived...
...Puzo had a vision of his own. "It was Christmas Eve and I had a severe gall-bladder attack. I had to take a cab to the Veterans Administration Hospital on 23rd Street, got out and fell into the gutter. There I was lying there thinking, here I am, a published writer, and I am dying like a dog. That's when I decided I would be rich and famous...
Does saccharin cause bladder cancer in human beings? This question is at the center of a debate that has raged since March 1977, when the Food and Drug Administration announced?largely on the basis of tests on rats?that it was planning to ban the artificial sweetener. Deluged with complaints from food manufacturers and consumers, Congress imposed an 18-month delay on the ban. Now come two reports that question the wisdom of any prohibition of saccharin...
...study at Johns Hopkins University, Epidemiologists Irving I. Kessler and J. Page Clark questioned 519 patients with bladder cancer. The patients were asked about their consumption of saccharin and cyclamate (an artificial sweetener banned in 1970) in beverages and foods. Their answers to these and questions relating to smoking habits, occupation, diabetes and other factors were then compared with responses from 519 patients who were matched for sex, race, age and marital status but who did not have cancer or any bladder problems. The results, reported in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, showed that consumption...