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...registered nurse, I have seen too many Down's syndrome children undergo painful and traumatic surgery for serious congenital heart defects. The incidence of chronic leukemia in these youngsters is far greater than that of normal children, and they are also always mentally retarded, often severely. In addition, the guilt and financial burden often decimates the family. I applaud the courage of the mother who chose to let her healthy son walk alone...
Like the lovelorn belter of the 1940s ballad Don't Get Around Much Anymore, more and more Americans are becoming chronic stay-at-homes. The high price of a night on the town is a contributing factor, but the lure of an evening in the house is more apt to center on what their owners call media rooms or entertainment centers...
...cases of heat prostration or heat exhaustion serious enough to require hospitalization have been reported so far, Wacker said. He advised the elderly or those with chronic illnesses to avoid exertion and drink plenty of fluids. "Anytime the temperature is over 95 degrees and there is humidity like this, people should be careful," Wacker said...
Most observers blame economic woes for Giscard's defeat and the subsequent Socialist domination of the Parliamentary elections. Trained as an economist--which he never let the French forget--Giscard had little excuse for 14 per cent inflation and chronic unemployment...
...consequences are inevitable. "Like an overburdened telephone switch board," explains Dr. Walter Riker Jr., chief of pharmacology at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, "the brain cannot handle all the messages. There is too much information flowing in, and the user becomes hyperaroused." With higher doses and chronic use, the alertness and exhilaration so prized by coke's connoisseurs quickly turn into darker effects, ranging from insomnia to full-fledged cocaine psychosis. Even a single overdose can cause severe headaches, nausea and convulsions-indeed, total respiratory and cardiovascular collapse. Says U.C.L.A. Psychopharmacologist Ronald Siegel: "Extreme cocaine dosages light...