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...University of Washington Medical Center's Clinical Pain Service in Seattle (see box). Treatment at a pain clinic begins with a thorough workup, including physical, psychological, neurologic, orthopedic, radiologic and laboratory examinations. If a physical problem is detected-a tumor pressing on a nerve, a slipped disc-surgery or some other appropriate treatment will be recommended...
...meeting with a computer software publisher when someone mentioned Flight Simulator II, a program that puts Walter Mitty pilots into the cockpit of a single-engine airplane. An amateur aviator who flies a small jet out of his ranch in Santa Barbara, Calif., Travolta could not resist taking the disc out for a quick spin. Much to the publisher's dismay, Travolta was still at the computer two hours later, doing daredevil stunts 5,000 feet above Los Angeles in an imaginary Piper 181 Cherokee Archer...
...more varied uses and demanding more from their TVs than just a reasonably clear picture of Dan Rather reading the evening news. First they began playing video games, whose fancy graphics show up best with a sharp display. Now people are showing movies on their TV with laser-disc machines and videocassette recorders, and they want picture and sound quality at home that approaches what they can get in a movie theater...
...recent Blonsky study looked into the RCA videodisc. The videodisc is a product that actively involves the viewer in choosing among 54 places in a program to start, but the video disc falied because it involved the viewer too much in a product that he or she had become to used to using as a drug. Blonsky and his colleague Edmundo Des Noes studied the product and made an offer to the ocmpany of a video program that would use the ability of the machine to involve the viewer to actively engage their semiotic interest. They wrote up a script...
...takes several medicines (Dyazide, hydralazine and, lately, atenolol) to control it. Hart had a benign nodule on his thyroid gland removed in 1972, and takes Synthroid, a synthetic thyroid hormone, to forestall any new growths. Apparently neither candidate suffers any side effects from the daily drugs. Jackson has degenerative-disc problems, which cause lower back pain. Reagan (ailments: hearing loss, allergies) takes only vitamins every...