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...tends to attract overachievers, he said, and a "slight reduction in the throttle setting" of academic life would provide "a little more time on the margins...for reflection, pleasure and interaction with colleagues...
...ignored the protesters, I ignored their signs, I paid only slight attention to the t.v. cameras filming the crowd. I was late for the ballet...
...year to cope with the bladder problem, reports Gerontologist Neil Resnick of Boston's Beth Israel Hospital, "more than is spent on the general population for dialysis and coronary-bypass surgery combined." Many younger people are victims, including children with persistent bed-wetting trouble. Incontinence, which can range from slight leakage to total absence of control, can be caused by such illnesses as multiple sclerosis and cancer, as well as by damage to the spinal cord, congenital defects, an enlarged prostate or a weakened sphincter muscle around the opening of the bladder. In the last case, any sort of physical...
Medical literature has been woefully slight, but doctors now point to a number of treatments, 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...
...were to fall another 15% against all currencies, Economist De Vries figured, it would slash about $50 billion from the deficit. One reason: foreign manufacturers would finally be compelled to push their prices up substantially on goods sold in the U.S. The rise in import prices would fuel a slight increase in the American inflation rate, the economists said, but not enough to outweigh the benefits of a decreased trade deficit...