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Although alcoholism, when it occurs, often follows ten years or so of problem drinking, there are also alcoholics who apparently skipped even the social-drinker phase. They passed from total abstinence directly into chronic alcoholism. This may be due in some cases to a biochemical imbalance of some sort. "There have been people I call 'instant alcoholics' who are in trouble the minute they drink," says Marty Mann...
...developing cirrhosis, a condition in which liver cells have been replaced by fibrous scar tissue, are at least one in ten. A severely damaged liver cannot adequately manufacture bile, which is necessary for the digestion of fats; as a consequence, the alcoholic often feels weak and suffers from chronic indigestion. This may be made worse by gastritis, which is caused by alcohol irritation of the sensitive linings of the stomach and small intestine. The troubles of a heavy drinker do not end there, and through damage to the central nervous system and hormonal imbalance, alcohol may even cause impotence...
...Alberta Arthurs, Dean of Admissions, Financial Aid and Women's Education, who requested the inquiry, have provided the community with valuable information. It is now up to department chairmen and prize committees to act on it--to correct what may be a benign discrepancy before it becomes a chronic, habitual problem...
...smoker. The cigarette filter often protects the smoker; the non-smoker has no such protection and must breathe the smoke that wafts his way from the cigarette's end. That unfiltered smoke contains more cadmium than is contained in filtered smoke. (Cadmium, in large doses, is connected with emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and hypertension). Unfiltered smoke also contains almost twice the tar and nicotine of filtered smoke. A study in Germany revealed that a non-smoker in a closed room where several cigarettes have recently been smoked inhales as much tar and nicotine as a smoker does from four or five...
...discussion of Henry Kissinger's meeting with the Latin American Foreign Ministers [Feb. 25], TIME incorrectly characterized U.S. inter-American policy as "near-total neglect." The Nixon Administration has worked carefully to avoid a chronic flaw in previous U.S. policy: the idea that all development in Latin America should be according to U.S. formulas. The result is the "low-profile" posture, in which the U.S. would not dominate but rather wait for Latin American initiatives...