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...Louis Roy, 74, who helped draft the popular 1987 constitution, was arrested, punched and, he reported later, threatened by a policeman who "said he would cut out my liver." Socialist party leader Serge Gilles was stomped on and hauled to the palace, where he was beaten again, then released; he has since gone into hiding. By week's end as many as 80 people had been arrested and five deported...
...novelist (Fear Itself, The International Garage Sale) and TIME contributor, proves to be a robust and resourceful stand-up historian as he deftly tills familiar and unfamiliar ground: the first Jewish settlers who tried to farm the Catskills' stony soil; the hotel owners who hit pay dirt in chopped liver; singers and comedians such as Eddie Fisher, Danny Kaye and Sid Caesar, who got their starts on Borscht Belt stages; the gamblers who fixed interhotel basketball games and corrupted some of the best college players of the early 1950s; and, finally, the real estate developers of the 1980s who subdivided...
...Johnson was found to be an acute paranoid schizophrenic; she died of alcohol-related liver disease in 1986. But by then the prosecution no longer needed her. The police had written to 200 parents stating that the authorities were investigating oral sex and sodomy at the McMartin school. To the parents of affluent Manhattan Beach who thought the McMartin school was the first step on the road to Stanford, this was a bombshell. They soon had fantastic stories to tell after their children were interviewed by Kee MacFarlane, an administrator turned therapist at Children's Institute International...
...wall into the bloodstream. Once there it circulates to the brain, where it finally exerts its inebriating effect. Alcohol dehydrogenase breaks down spirits in the stomach, reducing the amount of pure alcohol that enters the bloodstream about 20%; the rest is eventually metabolized by similar enzymes in the liver...
Experts say this lack of protection may help explain why alcoholic women suffer more heavily from liver damage than do alcoholic men. Women may be more vulnerable to cirrhosis for another reason, says Dr. Jack Mendelson of Harvard Medical School. Studies by a team at Johns Hopkins indicate that women's livers metabolize alcohol faster than men's and thus may be more subject to wear and tear. Mendelson speculates that in female alcoholics a lack of gastric enzyme means that "their livers have to work even harder," accelerating the destruction...