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Whisky for Pain. If the reader wants to know still more, he turns to the phlebitis entry in the diseases section of the book. There he learns that the disorder may be due to a clot in the outer veins of the thigh or leg; that his feet should be raised in bed; that whisky may ease the pain; and that doctors -whom he should consult posthaste-usually advise anticoagulants or surgery. In all, the book lists more than 650 symptoms and discusses nearly 500 diseases-from acne and cold sores to Zenker's diverticulum, an unnatural pouch that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Diagnosis by the Book | 3/7/1977 | See Source »

However, Fell is no von Daniken, sensationalizing about beings from outer space. Fell says those South American inscriptions and artifacts, which von Daniken attributes to spacemen, are really the work of ancient voyagers from Libya...

Author: By Peter Frawley, | Title: Barry Fell and His Big Idea: Wherein a Harvard Zoology Professor Tells the Tale Of All the Folks Who Got Here Before Columbus | 2/15/1977 | See Source »

...highs are scintillating. Sound loses itself in the infinity of space. A leap of imagination and one could be transported past the Pleiades, meditating on some barren asteroid and watching the comets streak by. The synthetic mode lends itself, as Bowie has proven in the past, to evoking the outer space reality in which much of his music dwells. Low is an unexpected break toward an entirely new form of rock...

Author: By J.t. Defenderfer, | Title: Is Aladdin Sane? | 2/2/1977 | See Source »

...temple worship was as central for the Essenes as for other Jews. Indeed, nearly half of the scroll deals with rules that the Essenes thought should have been used to build the temple and worship in it. It calls for a building of three concentric square courts, with twelve outer gates named for the twelve sons of Jacob. It also gives instructions for the surrounding area, down to the detail that the site for latrines must be 1,500 yards away "in order that it will not be visible from the [temple] city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Newest of the Dead Sea Scrolls | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

...build factories in outer space...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Pancakes and Plumbing | 1/24/1977 | See Source »

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