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...last ditch effort to save her life, friends sent Rossall, 31, to Dallas last month to be treated at the Brookhaven Medical Center's Environmental Control Unit. The unit is one of a handful of clinics in the U.S. devoted to a new and controversial branch of medicine, clinical ecology. Specialists in the field, founded by Chicago Allergist Theron Randolph, 74, theorize that some people are especially sensitive to man-made chemicals in the environment, and suffer allergic-type reactions. Says Randolph: "These individuals rapidly become susceptible to a wider range of materials. Sooner or later, in the worst...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Totally Allergic | 3/16/1981 | See Source »

...thus be able to stay in place through the election campaign. Most Cabinet members favored this comparatively graceful course, but it was decided to hold off until a small clique of diehard Begin supporters-led by Sharon and Housing Minister David Levy-had time to embark on their last-ditch exercise in vote bartering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Israel: Futile Exercise in Survival | 1/26/1981 | See Source »

...final two minutes of the game, the Crimson made a last ditch comeback effort and rushed the Bruins, forcing several turnovers, and with six seconds left Hurley scored again, putting the Crimson one goal away from a minor miracle. But a quick Brown sweep which lasted six seconds after the faceoff soon melted those hopes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Icers Fall Short; Brown Takes 4-3 Decision | 1/8/1981 | See Source »

...blind man cannot lead another one; if he does, both will fall into a ditch. --Luke...

Author: By Nancy F. Bauer, | Title: They Know Not What They Do | 11/25/1980 | See Source »

...last week, however, a summer-long effort by the federal and provincial governments to reach accord on constitutional change had collapsed in acrimonious failure. At the end of a six-day summit around a horseshoe table in Ottawa-capped by a last-ditch private bargaining session in Trudeau's drawing room-the Prime Minister and the premiers reported that they had been unable to agree on a single point of Trudeau's agenda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Trudeau Goes It Alone | 9/29/1980 | See Source »

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