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...widespread custom, called cqo gio (Vietnamese for "scratch the wind"), is used for everything from colds to convulsions. A medicated oil or ointment is rubbed into the skin, which is then firmly stroked with a coin, comb or spoon until contusions appear. The practice seems harmless, says Pediatrician Gentry Yeatman of the Tacoma, Wash., Madigan Army Medical Center, who became familiar with the massage technique during a 1975 stint at a refugee camp in Indiantown Gap, Pa. In a report published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Yeatman warns that most American physicians are unfamiliar with...
...comeback after a miscarriage and a nervous breakdown. One of the locals is murdered at a reception they give, and a little later the director's secretary succumbs in unpleasant circumstances. Miss Marple, the spinster sleuth-played agreeably by Lansbury in a more subdued style than is her custom or that of her glorious predecessor in the role, Margaret Rutherford-solves the case, almost by remote control...
Zoos will also probably have to give up the custom of pairing baby male and female gorillas. The practice may make them feel and act more like brother and sister than lovers when they reach sexual maturity (at about age eight). At the Cincinnati Zoo, for instance, a male named Mgolo delighted in pummeling Penelope, who had shared a cage with him since infancy. She refused to breed with him. Only after she had been moved in with another couple did she find her true love. As a result of this and similar matchmaking, the zoo now has 14 offspring...
...pages; $110), Scholar Jack Hillier explores seven decades of artistry. Hokusai, who began by illustrating cheap 18th century novelettes known as kibyŏshi ("yellow-backs"), was prolific; he once illustrated 61 volumes of a Chinese classic. As Hillier observes, the man was an "encyclopedist of Japanese life and custom." That life and custom included portraiture, nature studies and some explicit erotic drawings that earn this book an X rating...
...Republican Senators and Congressmen on Capitol Hill, Reagan revived an almost forgotten Washington tradition by proceeding to the Supreme Court's Greek temple for a "get-acquainted" visit. A social call by a President-elect on the Justices was regular procedure until the late 19th century, but the custom then fell into disuse...