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...months to the day after he fell ill with what was first announced as a urinary infection, Pope Paul VI, 70, underwent surgery for removal of an enlarged prostate gland. The 45-minute operation, performed by a team of six doctors headed by Italy's renowned surgeon, Professor Pietro Valdoni, 67, took place in an up-to-date operating theater installed last month in the Vatican. The first major surgery ever performed on a Pope "went excellently," said the Vatican, and the Pope should be up and about in two weeks...
...candle source and to carry back an image of what is reflected from the bladder wall. Using local and spinal anesthesia, the Cook County doctors have been able to see: the inflamed areas in cystitis; a tumor; an obstructed bladder neck; the encroachment of an enlarged prostate gland. Most important, they can pinpoint the exact location of a tumor or ulcer...
...Walter B. Cannon (1871-1945), his hormone system poured out a flood of adrenaline to equip him equally well for "fight or flight." Now it is known that the hormone system is far more complex. Besides adrenaline, and perhaps more important, there are the hormones produced in the adrenal gland's cortex-hydrocortisone and closely related compounds. And a new study indicates that today's fighting man, far from flooding himself with such hormones in times of stress, actually finds subconscious ways to suppress them...
Painstaking prying into rabbits' habits has revealed that their territorial boundaries are staked out by the dominant male in each group. In a process called "chinning," he brushes his chin over twigs and stones on land that he claims; a gland in his chin deposits a distinctive scent that makes his own group feel at home but warns away outsiders. By simulating these scents, the Australians hope to ring pasture lands with odors that will keep marauding rabbits out. False chin trails may lead the unsuspecting animals directly to poisoned bait...
...Triangles are square. But if one is carefully constructed with the right angle of absurdity and a base line of chatter, it can occasionally make intriguing trigonometry. The angle in this picture, as it happens, is pretty obtuse: the Air Farce, according to the script, is a gland-based gang of joystick jockeys who do almost nothing but make low-level attacks on garters of opportunity. As a result, the triangle in this picture is anything but acute. But it's cute, real cute...