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...black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela was recovering from tuberculosis in a clinic near Pollsmoor Prison last month, rumors circulated that his 26-year confinement would soon end. Instead of freeing Mandela, however, the South African government last week installed him in a guarded, one-story stucco house on the Verster Prison Farm, 35 miles east of Cape Town...
...supporters of Pointdexter and North become too disheartened, it should be pointed out that Iranian experts hailed the Holy Court's decisions as moderate and progressive. Boiled cat intestine in their judicial system is probably the American equivalent of a one year suspended sentence at the Betty Ford Clinic. Besides Pointdexter and North still have one great advantage over their Iranian counterparts: There is no lecture circuit in Iran...
...life groups have no intention of turning down the heat. "We're not resting on our laurels," says Barbara Magera of Operation Rescue, an organization that seeks to shut down abortion clinics through picketing and harassment of patients and staff. Some 10,000 Rescue activists have been arrested in the past year. Last week Rescue struck again in St. Paul, with 200 protesters blocking the entrance of a Planned Parenthood clinic. Ultimately, Rescue and several other groups intend to press not only for a Roe reversal but also for a "human life" amendment to the Constitution...
...today, Bonnie prescribes a Nutty Buddy ice cream cone on the walk home, then a few drops of Sweet Oil for the affected ear. She makes an appointment at the clinic for the morning. Then she sets Tina up with a thermometer in her mouth and her homework in front of her. "Come on now," she says, urging a pencil on the child. "You're not that sick...
Until the 1980s, the only therapy doctors had to offer was penile implants -- prosthetic devices that are surgically inserted into the penis to mimic an erection. Now, declares urologist Drogo Montague of the Cleveland Clinic, "the implant is the end of the treatment line." Before resorting to implants, doctors are able to draw upon less drastic remedies...