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Kasparov, robust and athletic, held up well over the months, but the toll on Karpov was high. He has reportedly lost 15 lbs. since September, and is said to have been treated for exhaustion and strain at a clinic for the party elite. Two weeks ago, Karpov, normally an icily precise defensive genius, began to blunder. Kasparov drove to victory in the 47th and then the 48th game. Meanwhile, he says, Soviet chess officials had begun quietly pressuring him to agree to end the match. Shortly thereafter, Campomanes appeared in Moscow, amid rumors that the Soviets, who are heavily represented...
Denmark's center is basically a medical clinic, but in Toronto there are 20 volunteers who conduct research and guide victims to normal lives in the community. This includes helping them find jobs and homes and standing by to assist with advice on everything from eating to functioning in a new society...
...rehabilitation clinics like the Roosevelt Institute, PPMA patients are learning how to cope with their recurring symptoms. Many are able to continue most of their ordinary activities with the help of lightweight braces and portable respirators. Institute doctors also recommend that they simply rest more, which enables them to conserve the energy to carry on. This prescription is alien to most of the patients. "Polio survivors are very strong people," says Frederick Maynard, director of the post-polio clinic at the University of Michigan Medical Center in Ann Arbor. "It goes against their whole approach to life to suddenly take...
...zeal with which some pro-liters approach abortion, but of what the actual debate on abortion has come to in this country a dangerous silence broken periodically by a bomb blast and the sound of fire sterns. Also filling this brandishing graphic photographs and drawings of aborted fetuses barricading clinic doors, harassing patients and workers and even calling abortion patients at home who are about to enter the facilities. There has been no sweeping condemnation by pro-life activists of such protests which have also risen sharply in the past year. Yet this form of protest is damaging in much...
...abortions are comparable to the people who perpetrated the Holocaust, is frightening, and I think it's irresponsible." Moran also added that "The Church, anti-abortion and Presidential rhetoric of the abortion issue has created a climate which incites terrorism-acts of violence that repeatedly endanger the lives of clinic staff And patients...