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Time for a 48-hour checkup on the Good, the Bad and the Ugly in the consciousness of the American sports...
Rumors about Boris Yeltsin's health so alarmed Vladimir Trufanov that he decided a long-distance checkup was in order. The psychic healer, whose reputed restorative powers have made him a celebrity in the central Russian city of Tula, announced that he had "remotely" scanned the body of the Russian leader and concluded, "There are no grounds for concern." Trufanov did offer Yeltsin one piece of advice: It is important for the President to "protect his aura from energy attacks and other negative influences...
...Americans face a glut of specialists who tend to charge more per visit. Specialists claim greater expertise and more experience. But they bypass a critical--yet less expensive--step in the health care process. It's a waste for a patient to visit a neurologist for a head cold checkup. It's a waste for the physician, as well...
Clinton, for his part, turned down an invitation to the Dallas meeting. Having promised to appoint pro-choice jurists and to extend civil rights protection to homosexuals, he knows he cannot expect to pass the religious right's moral checkup. Still, Clinton hopes to recapture a respectable number of rank-and-file evangelicals, some of whom are more moderate than their leaders. Baptist Press, a news service for the Southern Baptist Convention's newspapers, last month distributed a long story describing the Clintons' and Gores' religious practices. While the candidates did not come across as quite the Sunday school teacher...
...high school her classmates acted as if they were scared to be near her. She was rejected every time she applied for medical insurance -- even to cover the cost of bearing a child. And vivid memories of the childhood terror still flood back whenever she goes for a checkup and sees the same woman in the black pumps and beehive hairdo who administered the chemotherapy a quarter- century earlier. "I just stare and stare at her," says Euton. "I can't help myself...