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...injuries he had received to his spleen and colon forced him to spend the next four days in the hospital and the next three weeks on the sidelines. Though he returned to play in four of the Crimson's final five games, including last year's Yale game, he had lost between 15 and 20 pounds and never fully regained his strength...
...Medical Center. The supervising examiner concluded that "Mr. Reagan is a mentally alert, robust man who appears younger than his stated age." The report noted some "diminished auditory acuity" (Reagan wears a small hearing aid in his right ear) and the presence of a small, benign polyp in his colon. The President takes weekly injections for allergies, but no other medicine. Reagan aides reminded reporters that Mondale takes three pills a day for high blood pressure...
...product, to be used to test for colon and rectal cancers which account for 58,000 deaths in the U.S. each year, should reach stores sometime in December and sell for about $7.50 each...
...foreign debt more than doubled, from $334 million to $801 million by 1982. Faced with a shrinking tax base and a war that will consume approximately 23% of this year's $9.4 billion national budget, the government has resorted to printing more money, further weakening the battered colon. So far, however, Duarte has resisted devaluation, even though that step would help businessmen win higher prices for their exports. The reason: much of his electoral support comes from organized labor, which fears that a cheaper colon would drive up prices for the working class...
...have not only rhythms that insinuate but lyrics that can touch the conscience with humane political passion. He has been a lawyer for a bank in Panama, a mail boy working for a Latin record company in New York City and one of the main perpetrators, with Trombonist Willie Colon, of Siembra, estimated to be the bestselling salsa album in history. He currently writes short essays on art and politics for the newspaper La Estrella de Panamá; conducts a long-distance collaboration with Gabriel Garcia Márquez on a cycle of songs based on some of the Nobel...