Word: performs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact. Laetrilemania seems to be only one facet of a broader rebellion. The signs of revolt are everywhere-from the refusal of motorists to buckle their seat belts to the fascination with occult healing. Some feminists insist on teaching themselves how to perform their own gynecological examinations in order to regain control, as they put it, of their own bodies from the male-dominated medical profession. Vastly different ideologies may be at play, but these grievances express a common discontent with officially proclaimed wisdom about public health. Though he himself is suffering from cancer (and refuses to take Laetrile...
...University Health Services announced last fall it would pay up to $150 for abortions, although it will not perform them. Students who hold moral objections to abortions can ask for a refund of the 59 cents in their health care policy that covers the plan. Harvard is the last of the Ivy League schools to cover abortions...
...dominant personality trait is the willingness to gamble. Ballerina Assoluta Natalia Makarova, who now makes about $300,000 a year from her dancing, took a great risk in defecting from the Kirov Ballet to perform in the alien world of Western ballet. But then Natasha, 36, has always been supremely confident of her talent. Recalling an old Russian proverb, she observes: "It is bad soldier who does not expect to be general...
...routine may seem too much like what Vic Braden said jogging is, a second job. Another profitable brawnstorm, this one invented in Europe and developed in the U.S. by Peter Stocker, is called Parcourse. Dotted around its 1½-mile track are signs, directing the faithful to stop and perform an exercise, then jog on. Pa-course suggests a hybrid of miniature golf and the stations of the cross, and citizens should be warned, because its franchises, creeping eastward from California, can now be found in 65 cities...
...only expressed concern was whether Kissinger would perform the duties of a full professor," one source said...