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...clichés describe a small part of L.A., but they are apt enough. The place does have eccentric glamour. The enormous HOLLYWOOD sign stuck on one of the Santa Monica Mountains is odd and funny. "Colonics," a regimen of recreational-cum-therapeutic enemas, is popular among regular people. On Sunset Boulevard nothing seems remarkable about the Professional Waiters School, and on Gloaming Drive in Beverly Hills, the only pedestrians are tanned joggers and dark-skinned servants. Los Angeles has more registered poodles (16,732) than any other city, and plenty of them are dyed the colors of jelly beans...
...weekly program at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital that uses techniques of easing stress to fight hypertension. Begun in September 1982, the program has succeeded in lowering the blood pressure of most of its participants. Besides relaxation techniques (imagine watching your breath go in and out), the regimen involves a low-salt, low-cholesterol diet emphasizing fresh food. (Cost of the program: $750 for eleven group meetings, plus tests and an evaluation session with the doctor.) Trying to meet the standards of the program, one man at the session mildly complains, is so hard that the very effort...
...course is arduous, and the prize, once achieved, may hardly seem worth the effort. Medical students grumble about the unceasing pressures, the torrents of material, the lack of time to think, much less relax. And they are not the only ones complaining. Patients gripe that the products of this regimen, the current crop of doctors, have no compassion, run their practices like assembly lines and are more fascinated by tests and procedures than by the human beings they treat. Medical school deans and faculty members, meanwhile, worry about turning out narrow-minded, unenthusiastic graduates who have little perspective...
...despite this strict regimen, "he was almost always willing to go out for a beer of a cup of coffee," said Matt Hamel, a close friend of King's who graduated last year...
...long lead times. In that case, the submarines would have to be made smaller and less expensive. It would be too risky to put so many eggs in one basket, as is the case with the current Trident submarines, each of which carries 24 missiles. A new regimen would be required as well for heavy bombers...