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...condition with eleven broken ribs, a fractured collarbone, pelvic fractures, an injured bladder and a damaged kidney; and Mary Martin, 68, star of Broadway's original South Pacific and TV's first Peter Pan, in good condition with two fractured ribs, a fractured pelvis and a punctured lung; after a vehicular accident; in San Francisco. Gaynor and her husband Paul Gregory, 61, and Martin and her pressagent, Ben Washer, 76, were riding in a taxi when they were struck broadside by a van. Washer was killed. Gregory is in good condition...
...business bloomed in the late 1970s after the Nixon Administration pressured Mexico to spray its grass crop with paraquat, a potent weed killer. U.S. smokers, frightened of potential lung damage from tainted Mexican grass, turned to growing their own. That reliance on the domestic weed was further heightened when the DEA cracked down on the smuggling of Colombian marijuana into the U.S. Today, though many growers cultivate small quantities of pot strictly for their own or friends' use, 100,000 or so, according to NORML, the pro-pot lobby group, are commercial growers. They supply about...
...committee advised Americans to drink only "moderate" amounts of alcohol, although it did not specify how much. Alcohol consumption, particularly when combined with smoking, has been linked to mouth, larynx, liver and lung cancers. Panel members were not, however, able to confirm reports that dietary fiber reduces the risk of bowel cancer. Nor was the evidence sufficient to convince them of the prophylactic benefits of vitamin E or the perils of preservatives, food dyes and other chemical additives...
...Congress struggles to cut the federal deficit, its members' credibility is being further undermined by controversy over a tax break they voted themselves in December, which was buried in a bill regulating black-lung benefits for mine workers. The measure instructs the IRS to allow Congressmen and Senators increased allowances for their Washington living expenses. The IRS deduction: a flat $75 a day for the time members are meeting in Washington, a benefit that could be worth up to $19,000 a year. Fred Wertheimer, director of the public affairs lobby Common Cause, says that by allowing a deduction...
...medical profession, this scene could only have been imagined. Although this technology is still years away from wide utilization, today it is already in use in a few hospitals. In the pulmonary lab at Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco, after a patient exhales into an instrument that gauges lung functions, a computer program takes over. Named PUFF, it analyzes 250 factors that determine pulmonary dysfunction, then within 90 seconds issues a printout that may, in its own words, "indicate" or "suggest" what is wrong with the patient. Dr. Robert Fallal, the hospital's chief of pulmonary medicine, claims...