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No one knows just how many patients die each year of hepatic coma, but they certainly number in the thousands. Those whose livers have not been irreparably damaged could probably benefit from the Abouna method, which, unlike some other exotic procedures, does not involve long waits or inordinate costs. While...
Giant Tent. In an age of super-sophistication, the Now Couple of the late '60s is almost square. Twiggy lives with her parents in a London suburb, and Justin has a fashionably exotic pad near Soho, under the offices of Twiggy Enterprises. In his living room he has draped...
A young German wearing the new name of Robert Ross has just arrived in America, the victim of both French and German concentration camps. He is, as Remarque must put it, "an Orestes pursued by the distant cries of the Furies." How will this creature of survival be restored to...
"Brazil, where the nuts come from," said Charley's aunt, thus inadvertently assessing the extent of nearly everyone's knowledge of a country that covers 6% of the earth's land surface. But Brazil, especially Amazonia, is the last old-fashioned Eldorado left, a trove of unexploited...
Such theatrics might seem merely eccentric to Americans if they came from, say, an exotic sect such as Hare Krishna. When they are presented in the name of Christianity, however, people who consider themselves good churchgoing Christians resent the purer-than-thou attitude-and the appeal it seems to hold...