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...reason we cling to so many other self- destructive habits: because we like the way they make us feel. Prohibition, for example, tends to make its advocates feel powerfully righteous, and militant righteousness has effects not unlike some demon mix of liquor and amphetamines: the eyes bulge, the veins distend, the voice begins to bray...
...Benoit stayed in Eugene, where on April 25 in Sacred Heart General Hospital she was placed under general anesthesia. Surgeon James made a ¼-in. incision in her right knee and inserted a thin tube through which a saline solution was injected to flush away pieces of tissue and distend the joint. He then made another small cut and inserted the arthroscope, a 10-in.-long instrument as thin as a drinking straw, with optical fibers on its tip that throw a bright light inside the knee. The image can be viewed either directly through the tube or magnified...
...SPENDING. "The fears businessmen had before the election have been confirmed in the much higher level of federal spending," says Borg-Warner President Robert S. Ingersoll. Though businessmen hailed the defense-spending raises that helped fire recovery, they complain that the Administration's welfare programs will not only distend the budget and feed inflation but also expand federal controls...
...library officials are limping along on a make-shift summer arrangement that is unable to support the nearly normal enrollment in the College and in these social sciences. While assimilating the values of using a large university's research library, Freshmen are wasting time getting books and threatening to distend Widener's walls during November hours and reading period...
...some of the body's natural proteins turn into a substance called histamine. Some researchers believe that histamine dilates the tender arteries of the tough membrane (dura mater) that lines the skull, and a splitting hangover headache is the result. High fevers and various kinds of infections also distend these arteries and cause pain...