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...centers also use the lures of convenience and comfort. Clinics remain open in the evenings and on weekends; checkups are often booked for an hour instead of the usual 30 minutes. "Doctors shouldn't be able to pat themselves on the back for doing a Pap smear in seven minutes," says Dr. Janet Schwartz of Women's Health Centers. The three W.H.C. clinics in California take pains to ameliorate the two banes of the gynecological exam: icy stirrups on the examining table are covered by foot warmers and vaginal specula are warmed. The clinic at Georgia Baptist Medical Center...
Raising Arizona is strange and assuredly funny, and as such is certainly better than the more-easily digestible pap other film comedies tend to offer. But one complaint: why can't filmmakers as talented and clever as the Coens make a movie about something other than movies? I hereby call on the movie industry for two things to be done before the 1990s: 1) Take away the Coens' Steadicam and their VCR so the next movie that make will point to something other than itself: and 2) Get a bunch of Southwestern suburbanites and let them make a movie about...
Previous recipients of the prize, which is given each year for medical research and public service, include the physicians who invented the pap smear test for cancer, scientists who developed the cure for syphilis and others who originated the polio vaccine...
...little house were 40 fresh-plowed acres. A dark, blustery front was coming in from the west. On the porch sat Jack Owens, a black man with startling blue eyes, and with him was a friend, Ira Hudson, who volunteered, "I'm doing fine for a 75-year-old pap." Owens got out his twelve string Silvertone guitar from Sears, Roebuck, and you could see dust buildup on all the lower frets that a bluesman never fingers. Spires accepted an A harp from Owens, removed a wooden kitchen match from his mouth and began to blow...
...response to this wave of political repression, Aprista bases and militants embarked on a spree of violence which included several organized armed revolts. These revolts were unsuccessful, due to both the vacillation and conflicting advice of the Aprista leadership and the limited size of the PAP's bases. The Trujillo "revolution" of July 1932 is the most famous of these Aprista revolts. During the uprising, a large number of military officers were killed. When the revolt was finally quashed by the military, Aprista rebels were massacred en masse. In 1933 Sanchez Cerro was assassinated by an Aprista fanatic and replaced...