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Your paragraph on the arson question requires some clarification and correction. Anxiety-neurosis is characterized by both phobias and fetishes and sometimes by an oscillation between depression and mania: The so-called "danger junkie" syndrome (often associated with combatneurosis) is a classic instance of the relief of chronic depression through repeated self-stimulation of an adrenalin "rush. "Pyromania is a special case of this adrenalin autoaddiction. Until the discovery that amphetamine is addictive there remained some question about adrenalin, but it now appears that anything that can give temporary (symptomatic) relief can be addictive. The relief cannabis provides from anxiety...
Rumors began to spread that the new man in the Kremlin had been hospitalized. Some Westerners suggested that Andropov was suffering from nephritis, a chronic kidney ailment. Others hinted of heart trouble and possibly the flu, a common illness this time of year in Moscow. There was of course no official confirmation that Andropov had been either ill or in the hospital. Stories that he might be suffering from some life-threatening malady were quickly scotched when Andropov reappeared last Friday at a meeting with Nicaraguan Leader Daniel Ortega, and when he gave Pravda an interview that vigorously criticized President...
Last week the long struggle ended. Beset by kidney failure, chronic respiratory problems, inflammation of the colon and loss of blood pressure, Clark, 62, died quietly. The official cause of death: "circulatory collapse due to multiorgan system failure." The heart itself was in good working order at his death, having beat steadfastly nearly 13 million times. In the final days, Clark's doctors debated what steps they would take to preserve the patient's life: whether, for instance, it would be medically and ethically appropriate to try kidney dialysis on someone so ill. In the end, however, Clark...
...better course would be to develop ways of preventing such chronic ailments as cardiomyopathy and coronary artery disease. "If such work is not done," wrote Dr. Lewis Thomas, chancellor of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, "we will be stuck forever with this insupportably expensive, ethically puzzling halfway technology." But preventing heart disease, as Thomas readily admits, is a long way off. Says Dr. William Friedewald, associate director of the Na tional Heart, Lung and Blood Institute: "Of course, our goal is prevention, to have no Barney Clarks in the future, but right now that's pipe-dreaming...
...spots were Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), the so-called gay cancer. During the next half-year, Jack (not his real name) began chemotherapy and struggled against a series of infections. In the process, he lost 30 Ibs., all of his hair, most of his hearing and, because of chronic irritation to his throat, his voice. He is still hanging...