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...high in salt (now known to affect blood pressure) could cause changes in pulse and complexion. The Bible contains several accounts of paralysis and apparent stroke that may well have been the resuits of hypertension. But it was not until the 17th century that the great English anatomist William Harvey provided the foundation for the understanding of blood pressure by mapping the human circulatory system. And not until the beginning of the 20th century did physicians develop a practical means of measuring the pressure that pushes blood through the body: the sphygmomanometer (see box page 62). The link between high...
...Weinburg, personnel director for Washington, D.C. But there are doubts as to how successful the administrators will be. The AFL-CIO has melded 25 government unions into a new public-employees department, staffed by seasoned negotiators who will square off against city officials unaccustomed to hard bargaining. Says Carroll Harvey of Washington's Match Institution, an urban-planning agency: "City negotiators will be sitting down with some of the hardest-nosed pros in the labor business...
...audience, without strangling himself. Nor need he worry about accidental electrocution. No laughing matter that. Because of the touching of frayed wires or the shorting out of cables caught in puddles during rainy open-air concerts, many musicians have been jolted by violent charges, and one was killed-Les Harvey, lead guitarist with Stone the Crows. Aside from mobility and safety, Hartman reports that his stomach contributes to the sound ("The abdomen is the most resonant part of the body"), an unexpected sensation he regards as a gratifying trip all its own. "I can feel the vibrations in my body...
James A. Sharaf '59 told Boston attorney Harvey A. Silverglate the University would continue to remove from the files documents given under the promise of confidentiality. Sharaf said that Silverglate "was alarmed because he thought that we were irrevocably altering the file situation...