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...students, and the swooning white of the patient's thigh surrounded by anxious straining hands and white cloth, reaches its apex in the fresh blood on Gross's hand and the retracted lips of the wound. Such imagery alarmed Philadelphian taste a century ago; The Agnew Clinic was rejected from the Pennsylvania Academy's exhibition in 1891 because it depicted a mastectomy for cancer and was "not cheerful for ladies to look at," an understatement of the first order...
...touch of Mel Brooks rather than Ernst Lubitsch, though elsewhere Korda exhibits a considerable talent for imitating the sophisticated innuendoes of that German-born film maker. Worldly Goods is, in fact, a trove of mimicked styles. Beyond its undeniable entertainment qualities, the book can be read as a clinic on what publishers call a page-turner. The author-editor goes one step further and ensures subliminal product identification, with his name centered at the top of every other page...
...Stanford Oncology Day Care Clinic in Palo Alto, a computer program called ONCOCIN watches over 30 patients suffering from Hodgkin's disease and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. It studies their test results, then proposes a complex treatment program called a protocol, which includes lab tests, X-ray studies and subtle changes in chemotherapy. Says ONCOCIN's chief programmer, Carli Scott: "We're not taking decisions away from the doctors, but helping with their calculations...
Berkeley Student Body President Steven A. Anderson cites a $13,000 registration and draft counseling center and an $8,000 legal clinic along with the large sums given to about 150 campus groups and a lecture-note service as just a few of the ways in which undergraduates can benefit from the body's structure. He firmly believes that these elements of the autonomous government--much more than policy-making--are the core of the structure's legitimacy. Even at Ivy League schools where the budgets are considerably smaller, leaders reiterate the importance of funding. Says Princeton's Saxon: "When...
Many polo watchers become addicted. Last Christmas his girlfriend gave Mario Mendoza, 37, a prosperous Cuban-born lawyer, a helmet, mallet and lessons at a polo clinic. "Now," he marvels, "I have seven horses and a groom. I bought a horse trailer and a one-ton truck and five acres of land where I'm building a stable with 24 stalls. Next season I plan to have my own team...