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...hypochondriacs, or "crocks," as "psychoceramic medicine" and the recitation of their histories as "organ recitals." Other somatizers sometimes deliberately fake illness, going so far, for example, as to rub a thermometer on a bedsheet to produce a fever, lacerate the skin to create lesions, or overuse laxatives to disrupt the gastrointestinal tract. In the bizarre Munchausen syndrome, which, according to one estimate, affects 4,000 U.S. patients, ailments are feigned so that the individual can enter the hospital. One man was so skillful at complaining about his abdominal pain, vomiting and seizures that he was hospitalized more than 400 times...
...your article "Friends of ROTC Club Gains Official Recognition" Crimson, 12 April you report that Dean Epps stationed two undercover cops outside the meeting of the Committee on College Life for fear that the Friends of the Spartacus Youth League would "disrupt" the meeting. You then go on to note the presence of a Spartacus Youth League member at the meeting and quote me as saying that the Friends of ROTC Club "should not be approved because many of its likely members were interested in promoting the use of military force...
...such reason, they speculated, could be Pope John Paul II's scheduled mid-June visit to Warsaw. Some specialists have said Walesa may fear that a trip to the United States could disrupt the Pope's plans, possibly by creating such a volatile atmosphere in Poland that authorities there would cancel the pontiff's visit...
...suit climaxed a ten-month federal investigation of "dirty tricks" that Braniff said were played on it last year by American in an attempt to retaliate against low Braniff fares. According to one rumor, American pilots were causing delays on runways to disrupt Braniff flights. Another had American dawdling in the delivery of some $9 million in cash from Braniff tickets bought through American...
NASA is pressing for a cure because SAS can disrupt short-term flights. As a temporary remedy, astronauts routinely take along pills containing a combination of scopolamine, a drug that blunts sensations, and dextroamphetamine, a stimulant to counteract scopolamine's dulling effects on the body and mind. When the pills failed to help Lenoir, NASA's chief flight surgeon Sam Pool advised from Houston ground headquarters that Lenoir also take Phenergan, an antihistamine, and Dalmane if he needed a sleep medication. But the combination of potent drugs is not an ideal solution since it can impair coordination...