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...wonders-and blessings-of the world is the immense power of nature to regenerate itself, the tenacity that all life shows as it tries to heal its wounds and survive. Nowhere is this capacity more evident today than in southwestern Washington. It is just a year since Mount St. Helens exploded with a blast releasing 500 times as much energy as the bomb that leveled Hiroshima, and sending a cubic mile of earth into the air. Torrents of hot mud went coursing down the mountainside, flattening trees for miles around and turning the Toutle River into a flood of sludge...
When Uganda's newly elected President Milton Obote pledged his government to a policy of national reconciliation, he stirred hopes that his brutalized East Central African country might at last begin to heal its wounds. But in the four months since he resumed the office from which Dictator Idi Amin Dada ousted him a decade ago, there has been no peace between the country's bitterly divided political and tribal groups. Charging that the elections won by his Uganda People's Congress (U.P.C.) had been rigged, two rebel armies have launched an offensive aimed at toppling Obote...
...been rejected by any of the patients, nor have infections developed in the grafted areas. The body's natural defense system does not recognize it as foreign, like animal and cadaver skin. Thus there is no need to use drugs to help prevent rejection. The wounds heal with little scarring. Says Burke: "We are firmly convinced that the artificial skin is better than anything else now available for the management of acute burns...
...physically and mentally grazed by death, will really behave. A President will always be a target of sorts. And Reagan will go to work each day with his scars to remind him of that sad truth. But so far, there is every reason to believe that this President will heal, and be stronger than before...
...George Washington University. After spending a year as a White House Fellow in 1971-72, he returned to San Antonio's West Side in 1974 to live with his wife and two daughters. Says Dan Parman, a wealthy conservative who supported Cisneros: "Henry is the guy who can heal the wounds. He's acceptable to people on both sides of the tracks...