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Call it the Great Impostor. Like rheumatoid arthritis, it painfully inflames knees and ankles. Sometimes it masquerades as heart disease, provoking arrhythmias so severe that a pacemaker may be required. It can strike the brain, inciting blinding headaches, memory lapses and even chronic depression. Muscular coordination can become so shaky that doctors suspect multiple sclerosis. Walt Dabney, 41, of Herndon, Va., suffered for more than two years with many of these symptoms and ran up $4,000 in medical bills before his problem was correctly diagnosed: he had Lyme disease, a bacterial infection spread by ticks. Says Dabney, chief ranger...
...moderates, they talk about compassion as they attempt to disengage from the harsher aspects of Reaganism. But G.O.P. primary voters tend to be conservative loyalists. They want a combative leader who reminds them of Reagan -- or so the candidates think. Reagan's longtime pollster, Richard Wirthlin, cautions that the muscular approach does not work automatically. "People always rerun the last successful election," Wirthlin explains. "Now candidates are trying to bring forward what was a very important trait for Reagan...
...canine terror is the American pit bull, a dog with a squat, muscular body and thick, steel-trap jaws that is descended from the fighting bulldogs of 19th century England. In 2 1/2 years it has been responsible for 16 deaths across the country, six of them in the past year, leading many municipalities to pass laws to restrict ownership. It is estimated that there are now 500,000 unregistered, often poorly bred pit bullterriers in the U.S. So fearsome is the dog's reputation that it has become imbued with much the same malevolent aura as the beast...
...first day's score as tallied by Reagan's experts: no runs, no hits, no errors for anyone. Yet even then there was a vague feeling that North might prove to be a good gorilla, a polite but strangely muscular force unleashed by the unsuspecting investigators in their midst...
Parkinson's disease, which causes trembling and muscular rigidity, stems from the still unexplained gradual death of most of the cells in a tiny, darkly pigmented area of the brain called the substantia nigra. The cells produce dopamine, a chemical that helps transmit impulses from the brain through the nervous system to the muscles. The Vanderbilt operations, adapting a technique that was developed in Sweden and first used successfully in Mexico last year, involve transplanting dopamine-producing tissue from one of the patient's two adrenal glands (located atop the kidneys) into the brain. Since the cells are the patient...