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...Head. There has been some speculation that acupuncture affects nerve impulses or stimulates the blood supply to nerves. Dr. Li Pang-chi, the scientifically trained physician responsible for Reston's care in Peking, once had doubts about acupuncture. Now he believes that illness can be caused by imbalance between organs-and that "acupuncture can help to restore balance by removing the causes of congestion or antagonism." In acupuncture the insertions are not necessarily close to the pain or its apparent cause. For a headache, it may be the big toe that is punctured. Adherents also claim success in treating...
...Forget Pang...
...going to invoke Puccini in "Ping Pong and Reality" [April 26], you might point out that between Ping and Pong, the maestro had another character, Pang. The three were always together, I don't think you can present Ping and Pong without a Pang. And we'd better all watch out for the Pangs...
...indeed. ' The radical youth care nothing about the recession that worries their elders. They have a deep revulsion from capitalism, though they seem to understand little about its true nature-and above all, about the true nature of the alternatives to capitalism. And yet one wonders with a pang: Do they know something we don't know? Have they got hold of an insight that we have not yet quite faced ourselves-that acquisitive, Faustian man may be dying? The notion is not limited to youth. Isn't one extraordinary, still-echoing piece of evidence the fact...
...expressed it better than one of France's most distinguished political writers, Pierre Viansson-Ponté: "Even among his opponents, even among those who campaigned relentlessly for the 'No,' even among those Frenchmen who could no longer stand his self-assurance and his pride, many felt a sudden pang when they thought of him on Sunday night. Thirty years on the stage, sometimes in the glare of the footlights, sometimes in silhouette, eleven years of absolutism, long tempered by his own resolve, later by anarchy, and this exit lacking greatness, the one word forever in his mouth and in his heart...