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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Morgan, 36, of Macon, Mo., the future looked bleak. A victim of diabetes since childhood, he developed a common complication two years ago, permanent kidney failure. Ordinarily, that would have meant drastic changes in Morgan's lifestyle. To ensure his survival, it would have been necessary for him to drive the 65 miles from his parents' farm to the medical center in Columbia several times a week. There he would be hooked up for hours at a stretch to a kidney machine that would purge his body of poisonous wastes. Yet, in spite of his life-threatening ailment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Body May Be Best | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

...Morgan is one of the several hundred beneficiaries of a promising new form of dialysis, or blood purification for kidney patients. Its name is awesome: continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis, CAPD for short. But its effect is simplicity itself. It totally frees patients from long, wearying sessions on the kidney machine. They can walk about, work and perform daily tasks while their blood is being cleansed. Dr. Karl Nolph, Morgan's nephrologist, or kidney specialist, calls CAPD the closest thing yet to a completely portable internal artificial kidney: "It functions continuously, maintains steady conditions in body chemistry, and requires...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Body May Be Best | 12/18/1978 | See Source »

Women are looking sexier these days because there's a lot of competition on the streets with all those women going into the workforce," Klemesrud quotes Mable Morgan, author of The Total Woman. Morgan adds, "They know they have to look good--they're out there in the open. Sex is one of those driving forces that must be taken into account." The argument is as old as the hills, if not older. Women have always tried to use their sex as a driving force to con men into paying some sort of attention to them. It would indeed...

Author: By Laurie Hays, | Title: Recycling a Bad Idea | 12/13/1978 | See Source »

BORN. To Michael Bilandic, 55, mayor of Chicago, and Heather Morgan Bilandic, 35: their first child, a son; in Chicago. Name: Michael Morgan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 4, 1978 | 12/4/1978 | See Source »

Following the film Wednesday night, Nichael Morgan, a deserter from the South African army will speak, and on Friday Sean Gervasi, an advisor to the African delegates to the United Nations (U.N.), and former Executive Director of the Namibia Committee of the U.N., will speak...

Author: By Lisa E. Davis, | Title: Films on South Africa | 12/2/1978 | See Source »

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