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...might be the evening scene in any city slum. Unkempt youths clot the stoops of dilapidated tenements, talking overboldly of drugs; drunks reel along gutters foul with garbage; young toughs from neighboring turf methodically proposition every girl who passes by, while older strangers hunt homosexual action. The night air smells of decay and anger. For all its ugly familiarity, however, this is not just another ghetto. This is the scene in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district, once the citadel of hippiedom and symbol of flower-power love...
...promethazine and pethidine (a synthetic equivalent of morphine), to keep them in a light sleep for one to seven days; the average has been 2½ days. Nurses wake the patient three times a day for hygiene, to take liquid food, and to do leg exercises designed to prevent clot formation...
...Pannonian plain near Belgrade, a colony of gypsies dwells in a clot of squalor, surviving on what they earn from buying and selling goose feathers. Outstanding among them is an erotic, intemperate feather merchant named Bora, played by Bekim Fehmiu, a Yugoslav actor strongly reminiscent of Jean-Paul Belmondo. Endlessly indulging in wife-beating and mistress-bedding, Bora downs liters of wine and scatters his seed, his feathers and his future. As the film's principal character, he meanders from confined hovels to expansive farm fields, from rural barrooms to the streets of Belgrade. Wherever he travels, he witnesses...
Known as "the disease of kings," hemophilia is a hereditary disease, almost always limited to males, in which blood takes a very long time to coagulate. Normal blood takes five to fifteen minutes to form a clot, but the blood of hemophiliacs may take many hours...
...days after he had received the heart of Denise Ann Darvall, 25. He first showed signs of trouble by coughing up sputum and running a fever. X rays revealed a shadow, indicating what doctors call "infiltrates" in the lungs. One possible cause was a pulmonary embolism (a traveling blood clot). But the doctors at Groote Schuur Hospital concluded that the likeliest cause was pneumonia, and they attacked vigorously with heroic doses of penicillin...