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...medieval mystics, he strove to pattern his life after Christ's, an ambition that some Swedish critics of Markings chose to interpret as blasphemy or egomania; yet if Markings makes anything clear, it is that Hammarskjöld was a truly humble man: "How far from both muscular heroism and from the soulfully tragic spirit of unselfishness, which unctuously adds its little offering to the spongecake at a kaffeeklatsch, is the plain and simple fact that a man has given himself completely to something he finds worth living...
...ready for birth with a routine of exercise. He taught his patients chest breathing to prepare them for the time when their abdominal muscles would help expel the baby from the uterus. He schooled his patients in effleurage, a simple massage of the lower abdomen that serves to lessen muscular tension during contractions. Most important, Lamaze taught women to relax while participating actively in labor...
...League. The Yankees were disappearing all right-in third place, six games behind. All the kicking and gouging was going on between Chicago and Baltimore, two teams the experts figured to get their World Series loot courtesy of the commissioner's office. But Hank Bauer's surprisingly muscular Orioles had been giving the league fits all season. Now surprise again. Halfway through the week, Al Lopez' White Sox were in first place-one-half game ahead going into an eight-game home-and-home series with the Orioles...
...male victims, muscular dystrophy has long been known to cause a widespread upset in body chemistry, mainly in the enzyme system. In normal men and women, for example, the normal level of an enzyme called creatine kinase is up to 1.5 units per liter of blood. Early in life a boy with Duchenne dystrophy may have astronomically high levels, sometimes up to 1,000 units. Dr. Emery and his fellow workers at the Hopkins decided to check the creatine kinase level in mothers of normal boys, mothers of a single dystrophic boy (who might have produced a nonrecurring defective ovum...
...Named for French Neurologist Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne, who first described the muscular disorders...