Word: relief
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cadaver should ever endure what Sellars does to the Dogberry/Verges scenes--his chopping reduces them from a major element of the play's structure to mere comic relief. It's tempting to look at them that way, of course, and in the uncut script their scenes do go on forever. But as with all of Shakespeare's plot problems that tempt foolhardy directors to cut and re-order, this one had a point...
...Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Drs. Daniel Wallace, James Klinenberg and Dennis Goldfinger worked with twelve patients with severe rheumatoid arthritis, for whom medications, including gold and penicillamine, provided no relief. They removed either plasma (a process dubbed plasmapheresis) or the white blood cells called lymphocytes and plasma (lymphoplasmapheresis) in 20 sessions over eleven weeks...
...treatment is admittedly still expensive (hundreds of dollars per session) and untested for long-term effects. But even as a research tool it may prove valuable. Says Klinenberg: "If we can identify the troublesome factors in the white cells or plasma, maybe we can do something to provide lasting relief or even a cure...
Carter, along with every other federal employee in Washington, is already used to taking the heat: since April, thermostats in Government buildings have been set at 80° F. Hamilton Jordan found relief by throwing open his White House windows, but millions of office workers who would be affected by the new edict have no such option: most new commercial buildings are steel, aluminum and glass cocoons, hermetically sealed against the weather-and cooling breaths...
...prove his point, Janacek moves to the rear of the control room, glances at a panel with such legends as FEED-WATER PUMP FAILURE, STEAM-LINE RUPTURE and RELIEF-VALVE FAILURE, and presses a button. The effect is jarring. Alarms give off an almost hysterical shrill. Control-panel lights flash, and overhead lights dim. He has simulated the rupture of a 21-in.-diameter water line, which can empty the reactor of vital cooling water in less than a minute...