Word: colonics
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...reason that Reagan continues to capture the national fancy is his seeming eternal youth. He simply will not lie down and act his age. When he went to the hospital the other day for his colon checkup, he had been off solid food for 24 hours. After then enduring all the indignities of a thorough exam, he gave a thumbs up, climbed into his helicopter for Camp David, ate a hearty meal and announced to his weary companions that they would all see a movie...
...America is much, much sicker...than I realized when I first began working in 1955," said Dr. King. There are polyps of racism in the soul of America as surely as there are polyps of cancer in the colon of the president. It is not Dr. King's birthday we should observe, but his assassination. It's not how far we've progressed that should be measured but how far back we've been set. Over one-half of Blacks think Reagan is a racist. We want a color-blind society, says Reagan. Color-blind, maybe. But like any creature...
...news prompted tabloid headlines proclaiming CANCER BREAKTHROUGH and led desperate patients around the country to deluge the NCI with requests for the new "cure." Such a reaction is clearly premature, warned Rosenberg (who was a spokesman for the team that treated President Reagan's colon cancer). "I am really anxious that this be kept in perspective," he said. "This is a promising first step in a new approach to use the body's own immune system against cancer. It is certainly not a cancer cure...
...worked with," says William H. Gump '85-86, director of the Public Service Program. "Mine was Tutoring Plus in the basement of a burned-out building. I thought it was the greatest thing. I'll always hold an affinity for that group. I'm still planning on marrying Marisol Colon who's nine years old now. She was five when...
...request of Puerto Rican Governor Rafael Hernandez Colon, a Ponce native, President Reagan declared Ponce, Coamo, Santa Isabel and the Atlantic Coast town of Toa Baja disaster zones, making the U.S. commonwealth island eligible for federal relief funds. Hernandez Colon also joined some 3,000 mourners at Ponce's sports coliseum in a memorial service for 23 of the dead. The Governor has vowed to continue the search for victims "as long as humanly possible," while plans are under discussion to turn the Mameyes ravine into a memorial park. For many residents of the devastated barrio, the site is likely...