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Doctors are bracing for an onslaught of male patients suffering from the ills to which high heels are heir: sore hamstrings, shortened calf muscles, sway-backs, backaches and spontaneous "fatigue fractures" of the metatarsal bones. Warns one orthopedic surgeon: "I consider these shoes dangerous, particularly for ankle injuries. There is no question that the higher the sole is off the ground, the greater the leverage on the joint...
...Theodore Cooper director of the Institute, reported at a Washington press conference that on February 14, a research team from Harvard Medical School and the Thermo-Elecron Corp. of Waltham, implanted a heart assist system with a nuclear engine in a calf...
...overrated. He failed to make the tournament all-star team, and was not a terribly important force in either of the Terrapins' victories. Elmore, White and O'Brien carried the squad, which seemed either unwilling or unable to get the ball to McMillen inside. He is still gangly and calf-like, and there is a consistently confused expression on his face, almost as though he does not yet realize the circumstances into which he has been thrust...
...ineffectual sperm (under his doctor's microscope they wriggle torpidly, like sunbathers). "Singer's wife is washing Singer's socks in the kitchen sink and weeping prodigally," a fairly typical episode begins. "Singer watches . . . He pays attention to the great, submerged tangle of black socks, mid-calf length; his wife's red, vehement face; her tears dropping at intervals into the murky water. He thinks: My socks are washed in her tears. What a heavy responsibility...
...have a richer genetic capacity than man? The Carnegie Institution's Roy Britten and David Kohne, after much painstaking investigation, may have found the answer to that embarrassing question. A few years ago they discovered that in the DNA of higher organisms many genes seem to be repeated. In calf cells, they calculated, up to 40% of the DNA consists of segments that are repeated as many as 100,000 times apiece. As a result of this work, some scientists are now convinced that in this seeming redundancy of genes, rather than in the total number, lies the secret...