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...some as simple as a series of exercises to strengthen pelvic muscles, others involving surgery to correct an enlarged prostate or weak sphincter. New experimental medications may help block errant signals to the bladder's nerves or relax overly taut bladder tissue. Artificial sphincters opened by squeezing a small pump have been successfully implanted for more than a decade. Scientists at the University of California at San Francisco are testing a bladder pacemaker. Using a remote control, the patient can send signals to implanted electrodes, activating nerves to the bladder. D. Wayne Smith, 62, who has had one for three...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Health & Fitness: Incontinence: The Last of the Closet Issues | 10/6/1986 | See Source »

Plenty of administrators have left their pleasant little offices to pump hands and chat with Harvard's friends. Everyone planning to attend Saturday's Stadium Celebration should ask them what's being done to give a real voice in University decision-making to those who aren't middle-aged, pinstriped white men with dark-colored sedans and homes in Belmont or Weston. If the answers seem a bit contrived, alums can express dissatisfaction at annual giving time...

Author: By Michael D. Nolan, | Title: Crimson Smoke and Mirrors | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

...Radcliffe is even giving its big brother a present. Harvard's 107-year-old sister institution will be paying costs to restore an old pump in Harvard Yard and for landscaping around the site, Radcliffe officials say. Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner formally will present the restoration plans to Harvard at Saturday's convocation...

Author: By Brooke A. Masters, | Title: Radcliffe Pitches In | 9/4/1986 | See Source »

...when he pulled into a gas station in Arlington, Va. After filling up his gas tank, he started showing the weapon to his friend Joseph Donahue, a former Army pilot. Suddenly the gun slipped and discharged a shell, which tore through the side of the pickup, ignited a gasoline pump, hit a car and injured four people, three of them seriously. Dilger fled the scene but was arrested a short distance away. He and Donahue were charged with violating a state law against the manufacture or transport of an explosive device, and they could face up to ten years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Weapons: A Loose Cannon | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

...newspapers now numbers a dozen, for a tide-over investment. Instead, McClatchy bought the News by assuming its debts, while letting Fanning retain a 20% interest. Then McClatchy dispatched a 21-member team of business and editorial pros from his Modesto Bee to spend four months trying to pump life into his new purchase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: From the Boneyard to No. 1 | 8/4/1986 | See Source »

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