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...decide age or sex. The eyes are wide open, perhaps in wonder, perhaps in horror. Now we see the fingers of a second person palpating the flesh of this face, neither gently nor roughly, folding back the upper lip to examine the teeth; turning the head to inspect the lobe of an ear. The camera draws back, and it is seen that the face is that of a middle-aged woman, naked. The fingers are those of a white-coated man who seems to be a doctor. This man now speaks, dictating notes to a secretary: "Lower lip fleshy . . . prognathous...
Life for ordinary Saudis is also improving. Demand for labor is so heavy that the kingdom has full employment, and the wages of even unskilled laborers have jumped from $2 a day to $5. Because most of it has lobe imported from more fertile countries, food is subsidized by the government and is relatively cheap. General home loans are available, and medical care and education through university level are underwritten by the government. With gas selling at a modest 13? a gallon at service stations, it is not surprising that auto imports tripled last year...
Chinese acupuncturists, Wall found, use three totally different systems for placing the needles: 1) scattered all over the body, 2) concentrated in the ear lobe and 3) concentrated in the region of the pain. All three schools claim to be using traditional methods. But those involve inserting needles at particular points along lines called "meridians" to affect the functioning of specific organs. In fact, Wall points out, it is now generally recognized in China that the classical meridians for placing the needles have no proven physiological basis...
...Mark's operation on her did reduce her violent behavior but her seizures and psychotic behavior have continued. A nurse who had known her before and after the operation made these statements, "He (Mark) implanted a couple of electrodes and proceeded to burn out sections of her temporal lobe. The only problem was that her impulsive behavior did not leave her and she began to deteriorate in front of my eyes...She stopped her wonderful guitar playing. She stopped wanting to engage in long intellectual discussions. She became more and more depressed. Suicidal...
...doctors now claim that their original statements connecting experimentation on diseased brains, urban riots, and the brains of the non-diseased was a "clinical" error. They will now restrict their research and treatment to patients with a specific type of brain disease-violence in temporal lobe epileptics, and in the course of their research find out more about the structure of the brain. In their book, however, two of the patients were not epileptics but were diagnosed as diseased because of violent behavior or because of abnormal brain wave patterns...