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...many years the Indians and early settlers of the American Southwest treasured the oil they pressed from the beans of the wild jojoba shrub. In Arizona and California the jojoba (pronounced ho-ho-bah) oil was used as a nostrum for almost every ill: to ease childbirth, as a remedy for cancer, even as a laxative. Spanish colonists liked to rub the waxy, colorless oil on their mustaches. Last week a panel of National Research Council scientists reported that the jojoba bean may also be a panacea for the endangered sperm whale...
...case involved Stephen Wiesenfeld, 31, an Edison, N.J., widower whose wife Paula died in childbirth in 1972. Paula had worked as a teacher, earning about $10,000 a year; her husband, a self-employed consultant, had an income of $2,188 during the year before her death. Left to care for their infant son Jason. Wiesenfeld applied for Social Security benefits for the boy and himself. Though he won an award for Jason. Wiesenfeld was told he was ineligible because such benefits were available only to widows. Wiesenfeld sued in federal district court in Newark, charging that the act denied...
...book is a chronicle of botched hopes and personal failures. The government sinks in corruption and ineptitude. Idealistic university students stumble over their ignorance and lack of discipline. A servant girl's brief moment of romance leads to jungle rot and death in childbirth. Cynical political hacks are failed Communists and newspapermen are often failed poets who have difficulty with the fundamentals of news writing. "You have to start with the dead people, young man," advises one helpful editor. The novel's title does not refer to the church, which the author oddly does not deal with...
...frightened as those who will not concede their fear"; "Life is rarely without pain as well as pleasure, unhappiness as well as happiness"). But squeezed in amid the aphorisms are three nuggets of information: masturbation can relieve menstrual cramps; women seem more sexually responsive about two months after childbirth because of the increased blood supply to the pelvis; and in the first hour of sleep after orgasm, the woman usually moves toward the man, while he tends to stay where...
...easy. Los Angeles' Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, which used to buy 40% of its blood, is going all-volunteer despite the difficulty. The hospital sought donations from hospital staffers and then turned to the families of obstetrics patients, who rarely need blood transfusions as a result of childbirth. Doctors at Chicago's University of Illinois Hospital tried a different tack. Rejecting the idea of bloodmobiles ("They're like Vikings pillaging rural neighborhoods and carting the blood back to the city"), Dr. H.J. Rothenberg II obtained a list of the university's 23,000 students, then used...