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...reinfused the cells a month later and found that his subjects' increased oxygen-carrying capacity allowed them to run as much as 25% longer on a treadmill before reaching exhaustion. Blood doping was born. In 1984 U.S. Olympic cycling team coach Eddie Borysewicz set up a back-alley clinic in a Los Angeles motel room. Four of the seven athletes who doped won medals. America hadn't medaled in cycling since 1912. Doping worked...
...exchange for your efforts, this haunting and unshakable book will change the way you look at your world. Ware captures landscapes made to flatten emotion--a clinic shrouded in snow, a sterile apartment complex--and yet shows the reader the meaning and even beauty in every glimpse from a highway, every snippet of small talk. His is a graphic version of the anomie found in a Raymond Carver short story, with a social-historic sweep and unexpected, if fleeting, grace notes. And that may be this melancholy book's uplifting message: even in the most emotionally barren settings, there...
...thousands of other indoor-air experts across the country, Brennan says, because people are catching on to the effects of indoor contaminants. Last week, a University of Maryland professor announced that certain molds, when inhaled, can attach themselves to the intestinal walls and cause flulike symptoms. A 1999 Mayo Clinic study attributed nearly all the chronic sinus infections afflicting 37 million Americans to molds. And that's just mold. Today's energy-efficient homes constantly recycle everything from combustion fumes to dust-mite allergens...
...spent a few days at the Mayo Clinic recently, getting poked and probed, giving blood, peeing into a cup, coughing on command, listening for inaudible beeps over headphones, walking fast uphill on a treadmill as a young woman took my blood pressure, placing my left hand on her lovely shoulder, which drove my blood pressure up--and democracy was evident everywhere. Muslim women in elegant gray chadors sat whispering in the same waiting room with stolid farmers and their wives, geezers and geezerettes next to minor Pooh-bahs and nabobs yakking on cell phones. Snatches of French and German drifted...
...Lourdes of the North, the Cape of Last Hope and Court of Mortality Appeals, known for its clientele of sheiks and kinglets and potentates and ailing tycoons and celebrities--Billy Graham was on the premises the day I went, having his medications adjusted--but it's a clinic that also serves a big swath of southern Minnesota, so when the Exalted Nawab of Lower Rawalpindi's 14th and 15th wives go in for a chest X ray, they sit and wait next to Ole and Lena from Spring Grove. And sitting and waiting is part of the Mayo experience...