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...France cycling race, a three-week event where spectacular pile-ups are as common as spectacular scenery. During Thursday's fifth stage, for example, almost two dozen riders were caught in a massive crash about 20 km from the finish. Eight riders were hurt, including Italy's Marco Pinotti, who was rushed to hospital unconscious, with cuts, abrasions and a broken nose. (He required 11 stitches.) Despite having suffered a broken collarbone in the same incident, Belgian Rik Verbrugghe remounted his bicycle and continued to the finish, although he too later retired from the race. And the next stage brought...
...surgery was performed, this time to drain two abscesses. It was Neves' fifth operation in 21 days. As relatives and friends prepared themselves for the worst, Neves began to show signs of growing stronger, and was said by a spokesman to be in stable condition. Said Dr. Henrique Walter Pinotti, chief surgeon: "Tancredo Neves is still alive because of his sheer determination to live...
...over two of Brazil's states, Minas Gerais and Sáo Paulo, health workers were directing homeowners last week in what looked like a most unsanitary task: coating the walls inside thousands of mud huts with a mixture containing cow dung. As a result, Dr. Mario Pinotti, running the campaign from his modernistic 18th-floor office in Rio, was confident that thousands of lives would be saved...
Like many a health worker before him, Dr. Pinotti knew that the barbeiros flourish in the cracks of dirt-poor Brazilians' mud huts. The famed-Textbook of Medicine, edited by Manhattanites Cecil and Loeb, says flatly: "Prophylaxis consists in constructing houses so as to avoid cracks in the walls." Easier said than done. But Dr. Pinotti, once a poor boy in Sáo Paulo, had an idea: "One night when I was brooding over the problem, I remembered the ovenbird's nest.* As a boy, I used to throw stones at their nests, but the nests never...
...Even a Smell. Health Crusader Pinotti, head of Brazil's two-year-old National Department of Endemic Diseases, mixed trial batches of dung with his own well-manicured hands, personally daubed some wattle walls and waited. No cracks developed, and not a barbeiro could be found in the huts. Last year Dr. Pinotti ran a pilot study on 2,000 homes. After six months, none harbored a barbeiro, though 98% had been infested previously. Last week the dung mixers were busy on two projects, each involving 100,000 homes. Said Pinotti: "No cracked mud means no barbeiros...
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