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Some faculty members think that the burgeoning student movement is due to prosperity, not politics. One reason protests have revived, suggests Stanford Sociologist Seymour Martin Lipset, is because the economy is healthy. Agrees Berkeley Sociologist Neil J. Smelser: "Students are willing to get into a bit of trouble now because they are confident and don't feel the risk they did two or three years...
...knowing what he knows now, Cattau admitted, he will recommend that the President undergo more frequent colon examinations. It is now clear, he said, that the President is prone to polyps. In fact, the tendency may run in the President's family. Oller disclosed that the President's brother Neil, 76, a retired California ad executive, was recently diagnosed as having cancer of the colon. Said Oller: "I would recommend that Reagan have a repeat colonoscopy in six months...
...cancerous polyp, then at a less advanced stage, would have been detected at that time. "I don't understand why they didn't do a colonoscopy right then and there," says Dr. Donald Ritt, the San Diego gastro-enterologist who performed colon surgery on the President's brother Neil...
Last week Ritt revealed the uncanny similarity between the two Reagan cases. He had examined Neil in January, discovered two intestinal polyps and removed them. At the same time, he performed a colonoscopy, spotted a suspicious area and took a biopsy, which turned out negative. But in June, after Neil complained of abdominal pain, Ritt performed another colonoscopy; this time tissue taken from the same spot contained malignant cells. On July 3, only ten days before the President's operation, Neil had major surgery to remove the growth. Ritt reports that it was in the same area of the colon...
Rothman co-authored the study with Neil Nevitte, a professor of political science at the University of Toronto, and S. Robert Lichter, the president of the Center for Media and Public Affairs, which is affiliated with George Mason University and, according to the Washington Post, is supported by conservative foundations...