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GESTATIONAL CHORIOCARCINOMA. Before chemotherapy, this cancer that originates in the placentas of pregnant women killed 90% of its victims within a year. Drs. Min Chiu Li of Nassau Hospital, Mineola, N.Y., and Roy Hertz of New York Medical College, Valhalla, N.Y., have used chemotherapy to apparently cure up to 90% of patients diagnosed within four months of the onset of the disease...
Halberstam's nearly 700 pages of doom dwarf his tentative footnote on salvation. Can there be a cure for a disease to which there is no diagnosis? An American tragedy, the war deserves, like this book about it, the summary of the Greek tragedy Antigone: "The pains that men will take to come to pain." The only comfort may lie in the usual hangover from hubris. A nation that never doubted its invincibility and its innocence, as if those two were one, should never be that awfully certain of itself again. Who can quarrel with Halberstam here? The danger...
Heath's freeze sets an example for tougher action, and Americans will be watching it closely. If the British cannot cure their inflation, the pound most likely will continue to decline. If it falls too low other nations, particularly Italy, might make competitive devaluations. A string of devaluations would undo much of the advantage that U.S. foreign traders gained from last December's currency realignments...
...Licks only goes to show that the group has bigger problems than a lot of dope and enthusiasm can cure. Cody's original "contribution to rock culture" was to prove to the ignorant that there were good truckdriving songs besides "Six Days on the Road," but on Licks he serves up these songs like a cold plate of scrambled eggs at the start of a long...
...like to keep on fighting. For everyone else, the important task now is to heal the war wounds and to rebuild their nations materially, socially and psychologically. No time limit can be set on these healing processes, for it remains to be seen if the parties will take the cure with the same enthusiasm they fought...