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...creator of the political philosophies of passive resistance and constructive nonviolence, he spent much of his life far from the political arena, refining his more eccentric theories of vegetarianism, bowel movements and the beneficial properties of human excrement...
...frankly, after the obligatory minor spasms of unreasoning, abject fear had rippled from hair follicles to bowel, it seemed to me that maybe the end of civilization as we know it isn't such a bad idea. After all, in our long, tedious march of regress have we earthlings really accomplished much besides spewing garbage, ammunition and the Jerry Springer Show into the environment? Wouldn't it set a nice example if we could just for once accept the inevitable and issue a press release reading, "Hey, we gave it our best shot, but we really weren...
...general terms. Most such women, she says, "describe things like watching themselves deliver from across the room." Dissociation can become so intense that some women deny their pregnancies even to themselves. "When they deliver, the pregnancy is a shocking reality: they think they're going in to have a bowel movement, and they have a baby," Spinelli says. "Yes, it's hard to believe, but things happen all the time that are hard to believe." --Reported by G. Patrick Pawling/Lacey Township...
...exoticism they're comfortable with. Although veterinarian John Limehouse of Toluca Lake, Calif., is partial to traditional Chinese and homeopathic treatments, he tends to diagnose and describe his patients' symptoms in familiar Western terms. Sometimes it's easier to tell an owner that a dog has irritable bowel syndrome, he says, than to invoke the Chinese concept of "life force" and explain that an animal has a "deficiency...
...again and again the people who came into her room to care for her wrote down "incisional pain" on her chart, although the incision was in her lower abdomen. Finally, after three days, as her temperature spiked and her blood pressure plummeted, Strunk's doctors suspected the truth: her bowel had been nicked in the surgery, and she was succumbing to a massive infection spawned by leaking feces. Two days later she died. And last week Strunk's survivors announced that they had agreed to accept $3 million from the hospital in full settlement of a wrongful-death suit...