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...never gotten any professional counseling," the Governor said. "I normally look to my family for support when I need it." Dukakis also seized the opportunity to rise magnanimously above Reagan. "We all occasionally misspeak," he said. "I don't really think the President had to apologize." Gerald Plotkin, Dukakis' doctor since 1971, released a detailed three-page report pronouncing Dukakis "in excellent health and physical shape." Wrote Plotkin: "He has had no psychological symptoms, complaints or treatment." Before the week ended, Dukakis set aside his resistance to releasing medical records and made known everything in Plotkin's file. All that...
According to a source at the police department who asked to remain anonymous, the woman gave police and court officials several different aliases, including Shirley Yu-Plotkin and Shirley Maxer. Saying she "seemed kind of deranged," the police official added that the woman skipped her arraignment proceedings earlier this week. She now faces "arrest on sight" by a default warrant...
...search of such medical bounty, Mark Plotkin, director of the World Wildlife Fund's plant program, has spent months at a time living with the Tirio tribe on the Suriname-Brazil border, studying the little-known plants the shamans use to treat patients. "Each time one of the medicine men dies," he says, "it's as if a library has burned down...
...Plotkin and his colleagues are also assessing the economic potential of such tropical plants as "killer" potatoes, which trap insects on their sticky surface hairs; the Amazonian buriti palm, rich in vitamins A and C; the pupunha palm, whose proportions of carbohydrates, proteins, oil, minerals and vitamins make it an ideal staple; and Fevillea, a vine with seeds rich in an oil that may one day be used as an industrial lubricant...
Some researchers are concerned that the vaccine's altered vi rus might actually promote the development of shingles. Another great worry is cancer. Viruses are a suspected cause, and another member of the herpes family, the simplex virus, is under suspicion, says Plotkin, "though proof is far from complete." Dr. Kenneth Mclntosh, a pediatrician at the Infectious Disease Laboratory of Boston's Children's Hospital, warns that before the Merck vaccine can be put to widespread use, "more years" of research are necessary to resolve such questions. Researchers also need to know how long the immunity...