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...Texas neurosurgeon, reports good results with a process called cingulotomy. Boring holes in the skull, he uses an electric current to cauterize and destroy bundles of nerve cells that connect various parts of the limbic lobe, or feeling brain. Performed on 59 patients, some of them schizophrenics or chronic alcoholics, the operation has produced a vast improvement in half, slight improvement in a fourth and no detectable change in the others...
...Medicine, the articles ask for assistance in finding Roberta Brent Smith, 27, who is under indictment for conspiracy to transport illegal explosives across the Arizona-California state line. There is a detailed physical description and explanation of why the request is being directed at physicians: Smith suffers from severe, chronic acne that may cause her to seek medical attention...
...Janet, is something of an inverted play on the now familiar account of the author's life: Burgess, impecunious and convinced he was dying, sat down to write novels as a way of providing a legacy for his wife. Instead of dying, he lingered on to become a chronic writer. Rich, healthy Howard, by contrast, can think of nothing better to do than squander his easy money on a banal overseas tour and then commit suicide. It is not that Howard is outraged or dis gusted by life; he simply does not know what to do with...
...persuasive of the leitmotif of his '68 : "Nixon's the One!" He may not be the want, but he is the one you're with. At --writing a piece on the first anniversary State was one of my own--the Nixon affliction seems to threaten to worsen from the chronic to the malignantly permanent...
Many experts believe that deficits have been pushed perilously close to their manageable limit, and that if they continue, chronic inflation is certain to flare up. Says Alan Greenspan, a member of TIME'S Board of Economists: "The budget has begun to get substantially out of control...