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...them with a grotesque disregard for the environment in now vanishing beauty spots like Portovenere. Some 4,000 miles of the country's shore line is permanently fouled by oil slicks and industrial wastes from 140,000 coastal factories. Inland, the dumping of industrial wastes has become so chronic that Milanese rice, once the staple of every decent risotto, grows poorly if at all on hundreds of thousands of once fertile acres. Cities that were built for walking and carriages are now, like Rome or Taranto, choked with Fiats. Traditional patterns of circulation die as the arcades vanish...
Most people suffer from headaches at some time in their lives. Once doctors were in the habit of dismissing patients who came to them complaining of headaches as chronic crybabies, offering them little more than consolation and aspirin. Now physicians are taking headaches seriously. Headache units for both clinical work and research have been established at several major hospitals. Their work has led to better-but far from complete-understanding of man's ancient affliction...
Headaches, doctors realize, are symptoms rather than diseases. Toothaches, hangovers and simple hunger can cause headaches that can be cured by dental work, black coffee and food. Chronic pain is occasionally a sign of a very serious problem, like brain tumors, and can require surgery. Decongestants may help sinus headaches, while those caused by allergies can be prevented by identifying and avoiding the substance that brings on the allergic reaction, a task that most physicians concede is far easier in theory than in practice...
...medical benefits. Social Security recipients may be reimbursed for prescription drugs, especially those required for treatment of chronic illness, such as heart trouble...
...that the ouster had been prompted by racism, and quickly went back to the voters to win reelection. He returned to Congress in 1969, and began paying his fine in monthly installments. He showed up for only nine of 177 roll calls that year, and when asked about his chronic absenteeism quipped: "Part-time work for part-time pay." But his days as a political power were numbered, and in the 1970 Democratic Party primary he finally lost an election-to New York State Assemblyman Charles Rangel, who easily defeated the Republican candidate the following fall. Shaken, Powell retreated...