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...coaches want the 'big girls,'" said seven-seat Clara But. "We're not taken as seriously as the heavies...
...Cuba can actually enroll in college courses. The CENTRAL UNIVERSITY OF CUBA, in cooperation with local tourism officials, offers classes in Spanish and agricultural science to those slumming their way through the Carribean workers' paradise. Fortytwo Canadian tourists last year took courses offered at the university, located in Villa Clara province, and tourism officials intend to offer an expanded program this year. Granma Weekly Review, Havana...
When George Carillo arrived at the Santa Clara Valley Medical Center in San Jose one steamy July day in 1982, he seemed more a mannequin than a man. The 42-year-old heroin addict was bent over and twisted, drooling and unable to speak; almost every muscle was immobilized. No one knew what to make of his condition, so a call went out for Dr. J. William Langston, the hospital's chief neurologist. Langston took one look and was amazed. Carillo's symptoms suggested that he had been suffering for at least a decade from Parkinson's disease, a nervous...
...seven cases in Santa Clara County attracted the attention of local drugenforcement officials and Parkinson's researchers at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), who joined the hunt to identify the deadly ingredient in samples of the drug obtained by police. Their task was made easier by an alert toxicologist at the county crime laboratory, who recalled the 1977 case of a Maryland graduate student who had developed Parkinson's symptoms after injecting himself with a home-brewed opiate. The student had been trying to produce MPPP, a substance similar to the pain-killer Demerol, but had accidentally created...
...commercials for products that did not compete with Wendy's hamburgers, and spaghetti sauce certainly does not. She was even given general clearance by Wendy's to do a pitch for Campbell, but then Wendy's saw it and beefed. Said Denny Lynch, a vice president of Wendy's: "Clara can find the beef only in one place, and that is Wendy's." Then he added, "We don't have a beef against Clara or Campbell. We love her and we are sad to see her go." To which Peller responded poppycock, or, more to the point, where...