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...THROMBOPHLEBITIS. Women on 20-day pills that combine a progestin (a synthetic that acts like a pregnancy hormone) with a minute quantity of estrogen react as though they were "a little bit pregnant." Changes in the blood resemble those of pregnancy-including, for some women, an increased tendency for blood clots to form in inflamed leg veins. From there, they may travel to the lungs. A committee on drug safety studied every suspected case it could find in Britain and concluded that a woman taking such pills "incurs a slightly increased risk of developing thromboembolic disorders, but that risk...
Harvard biologists have established a center to promote teaching and research in the study of organisms--everything from amoebas to men--and how they react to their environment...
...flesh had to wait until 1953, when Britain's Sir Peter Brian Medawar revealed details of the immune mechanism involving the white blood cells. These are the body's main line of defense against viruses, which have protein coatings, and against many other germs. They react just as strongly against any "foreign" (meaning another person's) protein. They make antibody to destroy such invaders...
...Truman: That little bastard imagines himself a patriot. It was really his street-fighting instinct that got him to react to the invasion of South Korea...
Dance therapy alone is not a cure. But it is often valuable in a mental hospital's rehabilitation program, which is aimed at a person's healthy return to society. Patients who do not talk often begin to react to those around them through dance. Through body movements, emotionally disturbed persons begin to acquire a sense of self...