Word: bone
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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NASA doctors now know that the loss does not result from a destruction of red blood cells but from a shutdown of production facilities in the bone marrow. Upon returning to gravity, the body requires one to five weeks to start up production again. "Medically," says NASA Flight Surgeon Charles Ross, "that is one for the sleuths...
Despite the mystery, NASA doctors seem generally elated by the human body's reaction to the long Skylab voyages. Loss of bone calcium was insignificant, work capacity was essentially unchanged, appetite remained high, and sleep came easily. Even the blood problem may turn out to be a simple matter of the body's adapting to a new condition. "Let's take the position of the devil's advocate," says Philip C. Johnson Jr., a Baylor College of Medicine consultant for NASA on blood studies. "We're not sure the drop of red blood cells might...
...intolerably disturbed, someone in the Mental Health Department of the pre-paid medical plan will tell them that their guilt is of neurotic origin and ought not be given opportunity to distress them. Guilt, in any case, they will be told, is not "productive." Skull of infant, blood and bone, the desperation of young mothers in the back-street clinic of the Boston slums: it does not go with sherbet and seersucker...
...Route. By the war's second week, more than 500 reporters and TV technicians from 30 nations had assembled in Israel. Another 400 managed to get into Egypt. Most of them followed Field Marshal Erwin Rommel's land route from Benghazi in Libya, arriving in Cairo bone-weary and -dry after an 800-mile drive by taxicab across the desert (fare: $400). Damascus and Amman played reluctant hosts to smaller press contingents...
...bring together two hot properties in a period setting for which there is currently a lot of nostalgia. Streisand predictably does her adorable neurotic bit. Redford unpredictably brings nothing to his role but his physical presence. As for the period, it is represented by a rag of costuming, a bone of set decoration and a hank of hairstyling. No one seems to have the faintest idea of the way we really were, spiritually and intellectually, in a testing, fascinating time of transition. The ideas and issues, and above all the human passions that arose out of them, are missing from...