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...looking around for antidotes to my pain, which was partly the result of never having been alone before." Thus it was in 1973, after divorcing her second husband, that Deirdre Blomfield-Brown decided to change her name and her life by beginning a novitiate in the 2,500-year-old tradition of Tibetan Buddhism. Today Ane Pema Cho-dron, 47, whose name means "lotus dharma torch," is executive director of a meditation center in Boulder, Colo., and probably the only American woman to have been fully ordained as a Buddhist nun. The mother of two children and a former elementary...
sweetness. Dr. James Barnes Jr., of the Glenn Dale Hospital in Glenn Dale, Md., reports in the A.M.A. Journal that a high concentration of common granulated sugar, applied daily to bedsores under a special airtight bandage, clears them up. Dr. Robert Blomfield of Chelsea, England, reports similar results when he uses honey. Neither doctor is sure why his treatment works, though Barnes believes that sugar may boost the inflammatory reaction essential to the healing process. Barnes found that sugar produced a 78% cure rate when applied to the bedsores of 180 patients treated during a five-year period. Blomfield says...
...last week, so there was no new argument over the efficacy of its bombers. But out of Britain, with assistance from the German radio, filtered reports of steps taken by the R. A. F. to keep its claims accurate. Two flying officers-D. P. C. P. Wood and Richard Blomfield-were secretly court-martialed. German broadcasters said their crimes were handing in false reports of spectacular air victories in which they participated. Wood was found guilty, dismissed. Blomfield, said to have fabricated a glorious account of a Helgoland raid, committed suicide before hearing the court's verdict...
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