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However rapidly Reagan may recover, though--and he made a remarkable snap back from his brush with death when an assassin's bullet felled him in March 1981--his health from now on will need close monitoring. Polyps have a tendency to recur; the one removed Saturday was the third detected since Reagan became President. Moreover, as many doctors put it, the kind of intestine that repeatedly grows polyps is the kind that has to be watched for signs of cancer...
...wooded canyons and cliffs of the Santa Cruz Mountains. With flames shooting 150 ft. high, the fire spread quickly, fanned by 20-m.p.h. winds and temperatures of 104 °F. The fire was so severe that 650 California minimum-security prisoners were brought in to help with the dirty brush-cutting work. With chain saws in hand and the flames often only yards away, they slashed at the highly flammable under brush, sometimes in shifts that lasted as long as 43 hours. "They really work their fannies off," said Steve Sherman, a Conservation Corps fire captain...
After this tough loss, the Crimson will go on to face Penn on Saturday in its first Ivy game of the season. Harvard will have to brush off this weekend’s loss and focus on what lies ahead, beginning with the crucial battle with the Quakers...
...photographs have the same appeal as billboards and magazine advertisements: they are stark, bright, and pleasant. But Greenfield puts away advertising’s air brush and reveals the women with all their imperfections. In fact, just about any imperfection a contemporary woman might have is photographed and mounted on the wall here...
Benefits began accruing quickly. After the issue came out, Chavez says she was pretty sure her status landed her a spot on the guest lists of parties and events. But Chavez insists that her early brush with fame in the pages of FM didn’t change...