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...after only 161 days in office. The11th century Pope Benedict IX resigned once or twice (historians disagree) and Pope Gregory XII renounced the chair in 1415 as part of an effort to heal the Great Western Schism...
...arrested during that summer and kept in jail in a crowded cell for sixteen days, fed on cold rice and water, and allowed to wear only his underwear. Josefina Ortiz was sprayed with a pesticide while on a picket and she developed a sore that took three years to heal...
...cutouts; it includes 58 works, about a quarter of the known total. But if it does not exhaust Matisse's achievement as découpeur, it offers an unstinted sense of buoyancy. Matisse liked to talk about the "beneficent radiation" of his color, of its power to heal, and he would prop up his paintings, like sun lamps, around the bed of a sick friend. In the National Gallery, in the sublime, undulating leaf patterns in green, blue and yellow that Matisse designed for the stained-glass windows of the Chapel of the Rosary in Vence, this radiation...
...week: the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has just approved the general prescription use of a new drug, cimetidine. It shows greater promise than many previously acclaimed anti-ulcer drugs because it works by a different mechanism. Cimetidine reduces acid production in the stomach wall, allowing the ulcers to heal...
...zone has long offered an almost idyllic playground-comfortable, secure living isolated from the social traumas afflicting either the U.S. or Latin America. "If away you long to steal/ to a real/ Shangrila/ If your heart you wish to heal/ visit Panama," runs a song in Panama Hattie, a Cole Porter musical of a generation ago. For 3,500 American employees of the Government-owned Panama Canal Co., 9,000 G.I.s and 21,100 other family members, Uncle Sugar provides everything from commissary-and post-exchange privileges to bowling alleys and movie houses, swimming pools and tennis courts...