Word: boxes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saudi-Iranian encounter came during a relative lull in the fighting. At least two more ships were hit during the week. Iraqi Super Etendards swooped down on the Turkish tanker Buyuk Hun in the vicinity of the Iranian oil terminal at Kharg Island (see box). The ship was set ablaze and had to be abandoned, but its crew was rescued. At week's end Iraq" also claimed its warplanes had hit two "naval targets," otherwise unidentified, near Kharg Island, but the attacks could not be confirmed...
...original was a wonderful picture. But the response to the first preview caused us to rethink the situation. Besides, at 3 hr. 45 min., theaters would be limited to just one show a night." As it happens, Staenberg performed an adroit, sympathetic salvage job, but to little box-office effect. The shortened America opened the same day as Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, and in the first week, as the starship Enterprise was beaming up $25.2 million, America Leone earned only $3.2 million...
...excessively about the possibility of respiratory problems and addiction. "We've become a nation obsessed with drug addiction," says Bonica, "and this has led to a serious problem with underdosing." Congress is considering legislation to legalize the use of heroin to ease suffering by terminal-cancer patients (see box...
...combining the skills of doctors in many disciplines to deal with pain was pioneered by Bonica at the University of Washington Medical Center's Clinical Pain Service in Seattle (see box). Treatment at a pain clinic begins with a thorough workup, including physical, psychological, neurologic, orthopedic, radiologic and laboratory examinations. If a physical problem is detected-a tumor pressing on a nerve, a slipped disc-surgery or some other appropriate treatment will be recommended...
...from the bronze figure of a perplexed loser to have their picture taken. In southeast Washington, neighborhood youths have adopted the hot-rodding Skateboarder as one of their own. Says John Harrod, executive director of the Market 5 Gallery, a performing arts center that stands near by: "The kids box with it, talk to it and put cigarettes in its mouth...