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...overkill of advertisements makes the "heartbreak of psoriasis" sound like something of a joke. But psoriasis is no laughing matter to those who are afflicted by it. The disease, which may result from a genetic defect, causes red, scaly eruptions-mainly on the scalp, elbows, knees, back and buttocks -and untold misery to its victims. In the U.S. alone, some 5 to 8 million psoriasis sufferers spend an estimated $1 billion a year in their search for relief...
...play develops into fun. The courier has been had by an enemy spy--a small boy--who, he claims, looks a lot like the "strange lady" (that's all she's ever called) staying at the inn. Napoleon can't seem to get it through the man's thick scalp that the dispatches are important. He can't even convince the loony lieutenant that he's important. That impasse and Napoleon's suspicion that the woman is the spy are the foundation of dramatic tension. As the play evolves, Napoleon's suspicion is confirmed and he and the woman play...
Pyrrhic Victory. Most other Australians still detest the dingo. They have spent about $330 million since the turn of the century to eradicate the animal. They hunt the wild dogs from planes, bait sheep carcasses with poison, pay a bounty of as much as $13 per dingo scalp. They have even built-and maintain-a 5,402-mile-long wire-mesh fence that zigzags across most of the island continent, protecting the nation's 148 million sheep from the predatory dingo. Even so, says Brian Neill, supervisor of the New South Wales Wild Dog Destruction Board...
Darrach paints all his characters with rich strokes. Almost too rich, in fact. He describes one U.S. chess official as a "Huckleberry Babbitt," a man whose "pink scalp looks like a ham in mourning." Such vivid excesses might be well placed in a short treatment. But served in book-length bunches, the cumulative effect is a bit like overdosing on chocolate fudge...
Ornstein and a colleague have just launched a series of experiments to determine whether individuals can be taught to use one brain hemisphere or the other at will. EEG electrodes applied to both sides of the scalp pick up the subject's alpha waves (brain rhythms of a person awake but relaxed). These are electronically converted into sounds, which are fed into each ear. The effect, says Ornstein, "is to allow the person to hear tones varying with the activity of each hemisphere." The subject can then attempt to concentrate with one hemisphere and test his success...