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...narrowed passages, cutting off the flow of blood to a region of the brain. The result may be a stroke, which could lead to loss of memory or speech, paralysis, and even death. For this type of patient, few treatments are available, though doctors sometimes prescribe anticoagulants to lessen the chance of clotting. Yet, since 1967, teams of skilled neurosurgeons have been performing exquisitely delicate brain-artery bypass operations on such stroke-prone patients. They have also been meticulously monitoring these patients, comparing their progress with that of others who have not been surgically treated. Their preliminary finding: the operation...
...weather differently according to his circumstance, healthy fear works at the hub of his obsession with it. Facing the awesome grandeur and cruel humors of the weather, ancient man was forced to attribute the mysterious cosmic moil to deities. Wishing desperately to better his odds against the weather (or lessen its against him), he invented innumerable prayers, supplications, sacrifices, all intended to coax the gods to bestow better weather. Wanting exactly like modern man to know about tomorrow's wind, he developed the practice of looking for omens of coming weather in the conduct of animals, the tones...
Other convention members fear, however, that a precedent of squabbling over petty issues has already been established, and they see no reason to believe that the bickering will lessen as the convention considers more substantive issues. Tom Prewitt '79, a former member of CHUL and a convention member, said this week, "The dynamics of the group prevent much from being accomplished. It is just very hard to get 60 enthusiastic, interested students to agree on such a broad topic as student government. Before anything substantial will be accomplished, we all need to listen more and not just...
...OPEC price of about $13.50 per bbl. The aim: to discourage domestic oil consumption. To encourage increased domestic production and reduce imports, the plan would allow the price of newly discovered oil to rise to the 1977 OPEC level, and the oil companies to retain the increased revenue. To lessen the draining effect of the wellhead tax on consumer spending power Carter proposed that much of the tax proceeds be recycled back to consumers in the form of rebates...
...personally, I didn't know the late Mr. Biko from a bar of soap. I think that [police] judgment may have been at fault. With a big administration, it is quite impossible for my office to control every single aspect [of operation], but that doesn't lessen my responsibility. There is a human element which no one in the world can really control...