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...rigorous studies have shown their manipulations of the spine to be effective in relieving lower-back pain. Orthopedic surgeons have even been known to refer patients to back crackers, and some 30 U.S. hospitals have chiropractors on staff. Because almost every nerve in the body runs through the spinal cord, chiropractors maintain that they can treat all manner of ills by "adjusting" the vertebrae. However, beyond the lower back, there is no proof -- aside from reams of anecdotal testimony -- that the method works...
...since the group now performs phone inductions, Menu Man doesn't have to worry about revealing his identity. He'll just have to learn to weave with the telephone cord...
...never saw it. But from my brother's description, it consisted of a vaccum-cleaner-type machine attached to a long, thin cord. You found a bug on the wall, and you pulled the cord over. Then, you sucked...
...know about Elvis, but Walter Mitty lives. You can find him poised atop a 7-ft. platform swinging a big stick at a muscle-bound giant with a name like Laser or Nitro. Or swooping through the air on a bungee cord 15 ft. above the ground, trying to master a kind of aerial basketball. Sound like Mitty's fantasies have got a little outrageous? Obviously, you haven't seen American Gladiators, the syndicated television show on which ordinary, albeit very physically fit, people compete in athletic events against a squad of professional male and female athletes and body builders...
Having babies is not Darlene Johnson's problem. Raising them is. Until recently, Johnson, 28, was in a California prison for having beaten two of her four children with a belt and an electric cord. What makes the Johnson case unusual is not the nature of her crime, which is all too common, but the choice offered her by the sentencing judge in Tulare County: the chance to cut her jail time if she agreed to the surgical implantation of Norplant, the new birth-control device that prevents conception for up to five years. That choice, which Johnson accepted...