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...takes in exercising his remarkable strength. And in betting on it.* Stone lifting is a passion among the Basques, and as a youth Urtain never missed a chance to accept a wager. At the age of ten he won 25 pesetas for moving a 175-lb. stone from a pathway; at 14 he acquired a chicken by hefting a 300-lb. stone five straight times. He turned pro at 21 but soon ran out of competition, even though he gave his opponents ever larger handicaps. Barely taxing his 19-in. biceps, he set his official record with...
...rear of the cerebellum, affects vision. Other lobes of the cerebrum house seats of personality, intellect, speech, memory and sensory-motor activity. The midbrain area, directly beneath the juncture of the cerebellar hemispheres, is related to eye reflexes and both eye and body movements. It also serves as a pathway for nerve tracts running to and from the cerebellum and other parts of the brain. A bit lower and most vital is the brain stem, the "old brain," which man has shared with other creatures since the earliest stages of evolution. A passageway for nerve impulses, it monitors breathing, heartbeat...
...Routine" Cases. To the charge that modern U.S. medicine is so fascinated by research that it is losing sight of the patient, Dr. Berry responded: "Good research is really the pathway to a better understanding of the patient. One cannot understand disease until one understands the deranged biochemical behavior that is disease. Then every patient becomes a research opportunity, and there are no more 'routine' cases...
...been confused with castration.* Sterilization, however, does not involve removal of any part of the sex glands or organs, and has no effect on physical capacity for intercourse. It simply makes it impossible for the woman's egg or the man's sperm to travel its normal pathway...
...raised threateningly over his own head. But Osborn's most powerful image is also the simplest. In his Homage to Medgar Evers, the Mississippi N.A.A.C.P. leader shot in the back, a human figure is recognizable in a miasma of charcoal only because one fiery tracer plunges down a pathway of death and blows out his life...