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...Edward Franklin Jackson Jr., 39, a respected Columbus physician, admitted through his lawyer last week that he had raped 22 women and sexually assaulted at least ten others, including a nun, over a four-year period. Jackson's lawyer described the doctor, who is married and has two children, as "two people," dutiful by day and degenerate by night...
...sent aloft with Soviet cosmonauts in 1980. Other members of the crew: Navy Captain Richard Truly, the flight commander, flying his second shuttle mission; Navy Commander Daniel C. Brandenstein, the Challenger's pilot; Navy Lieut. Commander Dale Gardner, who will help deploy the Indian satellite; and Physician William E. Thornton, who will study physiological changes in space...
...test, called chorionic villi sampling (CVS), is a painless procedure and can be done in a physician's office as early as the fifth week of pregnancy. To perform it, the obstetrician inserts a long thin tube through the vagina into the uterus. A second doctor, following the procedure on an ultrasound monitor, helps the obstetrician position the catheter between the lining of the uterus and the chorion, a layer of tissue that surrounds the embryo during the first two months and later develops into the placenta. The goal is to suction up a sample of the chorionic villi...
...Alfred Döblin dissected and described his characters' passions with the meticulous disinterest of a big-city coroner ("Then she sank to the part of his body she thought was his heart but was in fact his sternum and the upper lobe of his left lung"). A physician like his spiritual contemporary Céline, Döblin saw Germany as a huge human slaughterhouse and Franz as "a big, good-natured sheep.' Mixing statistics of death and disease with the story of some petty, brutal people living in East Berlin, Döblin created...
More than ever, the returning voyagers speak glowingly of life in Europe's countryside, of good meals and friendly people in pubs, auberges, wine gardens and pousadas. Take Chicagoans Alvin and Susan Schonfeld, who are, respectively, a physician and an IBM telecommunications specialist. "We book into a major city," says Susan, "then try to get out into the countryside and talk to the people." After ten trips abroad, the only complaints they have are about "some terrible red tape in China...