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...known as Anthony Lester sat in his beat-up Oldsmobile at a fast-food restaurant in Port Angeles, Wash., eating a cheeseburger and perusing a flight manual. He had been taking flying lessons and hoped to have his pilot's license within a matter of days. It was not to be. Two undercover federal agents had recognized him in the restaurant and discreetly called for a back-up car with two more agents, who arrived and confirmed his identity by the mole on his left cheek. Lester, dressed in shorts and sweatshirt after a 14-mile run, looked...
...medical reading had led her to believe that they had not been thorough in her daughter's case. From a nursing manual, she learned that when there is evidence of severe pressure inside the skull, a lumbar puncture is usually performed only as a last-ditch diagnostic test because it can result in a portion of the brain's being pushed down into the spine, possibly causing death. According to the manual, a brain scan should be performed first...
...those, or do I want to add to my wine cellar?' The wine cellar won." John Updike speaks for many colleagues: "I am not persuaded that the expense and time it takes to learn the machine would be worth it. I'll stick to my manual, as I have for 20 years...
Your article "New Maladies" [June 29] prompts me to report another one. After 30 years of driving a large gas-guzzling automatic-shift car, I switched to a four-cylinder gas saver and developed "manual-transmission knee" from operating the clutch...
...reformers' contentions are open to dispute. Unless the U.S. proposes to match the Soviets tank for tank, it must rely on high-technology weapons to "fight outnumbered and win," as the Army's official field manual puts it. Still, the reformers have caught the ear of an influential group of legislators: Cohen, Hatfield and Alaska's Ted Stevens among the Senate's controlling Republicans; Hart, Nunn and Michigan's Carl Levin among Democratic Senators; Republicans Jack Edwards of Alabama, Newton Gingrich of Georgia and New York Democrat Joseph Addabbo in the House. By immersing themselves in the technical arcana...