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...however, a certain Marvel magic has been lost in the translation to video entertainment. TV's attempts at relevancy are encroaching on fantasy. On television the Hulk tries hypnosis therapy to cure his curious green condition and takes on such prosaic problems as teen-age alcoholism and child abuse. Similarly, TV's Spider-Man battles familiar terrorists and assassins instead of his old intergalactic foes like Doctor Doom. Lee misses the fantasy of the printed page. "A lot of the plots on the Spider-Man show," he complains, "are situations that Kojak could just as easily have handled...
Bassett reports solid bone growth in 80% of 308 patients; Brighton says that he has achieved an 84% cure rate in his 200 cases. Their patients have even more reason to be pleased. As his cast and magnetic coils were removed last month, Brachfield asked anxiously: "Can I play shuffleboard? Can I bowl?" Bassett hesitated a moment, looked at an X ray of the healed fracture, then confidently assured his patient that he would soon be playing both sports...
...years. According to legend, the founder of the Inca dynasty, Manco Capac, brought coca to earth from his father, the sun. The Indians used it to dull their hunger, cold and weariness. (When Georgia Pharmacist John Styth Pemberton invented Coca-Cola, he included small amounts of cocaine to "cure your headache" and "relieve fatigue," but the drug was eliminated from the syrup shortly after 1900.) Colombia's role in the coke trade is middleman and processor. At kitchen labs dotted around the country, coca leaves brought in from all over the Andes are distilled into a paste and then converted...
...Callaghan has no cure...
...written: Jackie Onassis will become an ambassador. Bralessness will sag in popularity. Kidnapers will threaten Donny Osmond. Dr. Jonas Salk will find a cure for the common cold...