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...seems certain about the best way to treat tennis elbow. Some doctors recommend complete rest for the arm. Some players, influenced by folklore, wear copper bracelets and report beneficial effects-despite the scoffing of medical scientists. A few doctors and many tennis pros suggest a more practical remedy: wearing a tight elastic band below the elbow, on the theory that compression of the arm decreases the tension on the forearm muscles...
...representatives roams the world sending back a steady stream of information on foreign politics, weather, and anything else that might affect an export decision. The trading houses also organize huge consortiums to tap natural resources anywhere. Mitsui, for instance, is a major partner in a group that is developing copper deposits in the African nation of Zaire...
...gave Gerrity a list of American companies that might help in such a plan, "providing the economic course was feasible." Gerrity said that he was opposed to creating economic disturbances, but later organized, according to the testimony, at least two meetings with representatives of such companies as Anaconda, Kennecott Copper, Bank of America, Pfizer Inc. and Ralston Purina. The other companies were not willing to go along with such adventurism...
...causes warts, horny skin growths that can develop-and disappear-rapidly. Yet doctors cannot agree upon the proper cure. Some recommend surgery, cautery with an electric needle, localized freezing, or acid to burn away the tissue; a few even fall back on folk remedies like touching warts with a copper penny or with a slice of raw potato. Now a group of Massachusetts General Hospital physicians has reported in the Archives of General Psychiatry that warts can also be removed by hypnosis. The researchers reached this conclusion after hypnotizing 17 wart-afflicted patients once a week for five weeks...
...action has been particularly frantic of late, partly because of the international monetary turmoil. Many a speculator has thought that 10,000 lbs. of copper, say, had more potential value than the dollars needed to buy a future on them. More important, commodity prices are being rocketed upward by a huge increase in worldwide demand for U.S. farm products. "Our markets are coming out of the age of surpluses," which always had a potential to depress prices, says CBT Pit Trader Richard H. Mayer...