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Called decubitus ulcers, bedsores develop quickly when tissue dies after blood is squeezed out by body weight acting on such pressure points as the base of the spine. Flesh is opened right to the bone in oozing craters. The extra nursing care that is called for costs thousands of dollars...
A newspaper does not die suddenly. It is slowly consumed by disease that spreads throughout the structure. First it loses a vivid editor, then its best reporters, then its power to lure talent and youth. It dies because advertising shrinks and economies prune live branches with the dead wood; it...
For plot, the film boasts a CORE sampling of injustices that supposedly explain the color-conscious hero's heavy drinking and bad temper. Seldom is there any doubt that what makes Adam run is Sammy. Carpentered into the story line are all the predictable solo turns-a crying jag...
6,000,000 Visitors. A lake dies of eutrophication, or quite simply over-nourishment. With or without humans, accumulations of sewage draining its way through the earth feeds a lake with nitrate and phosphate nutrients, the baby food of algae and plankton. Gingerly tugging the shore line at first, these...
Moss on the North Side (Houghton Mifflin) by Sylvia Wilkinson, 26, a green-eyed elf from the tobacco country of North Carolina, is a lyric evocation of childhood by one of the most talented Southern bellettrists to appear since Carson McCullers. Begun when the author was 13 and rewritten intermittently...