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...downtown boulevards to the alleys and byways of the Korean capital. Though the shift may reduce the risk of cardiac arrest for visiting herpetophobes, it has annoyed Koreans who regard snakes not only as nourishment for the body but also as a stimulant for the sex drive and a cure for a variety of ills. "I was shocked to hear the news," said one shop owner of the city council's proposal. "The snakes may not be a pleasant sight, but many foreigners show great interest in them. The value of the snake as medicine is beyond description...
...institutions. But Stockdale wants to create a model specifically designed to help the military "regain our bearings." Says he: "Today's ranks are filled with officers who have been weaned on slogans and fads of the sort preached in the better business schools-that rational managerial concepts will cure all evils. This course is my defense against the buzzword-nomograph-acronym mentality...
...mother declared. Truman then gave her the chemicals in the form of pills, to be taken at home. When leukemia was again found in Chad's blood early in 1978, Mrs. Green reluctantly admitted that she had not been giving Chad his pills. "Chemotherapy doesn't cure," said Diana Green in desperation. Instead, the parents had been giving the boy Laetrile, a drug which is illegal for use in cancer treatment in Massachusetts, and which repeated medical studies have found useless for that purpose...
When the Greens asked the state courts for permission to give their son Laetrile as well, it was denied. Last month the Greens fled to Tijuana with Chad, placing him in a clinic headed by Dr. Ernesto Contreras, who advocates Laetrile for its psychological benefits, rather than as a cure for cancer...
...seeing the Pope in person defied counting. Many millions greeted him at motorcades, Masses, festivals. Much of his 81 -mile route from Mexico City to Puebla lay through a valley of humanity that lined the road, including the aged and the sick who came in hope of a cure...