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...nerve, but at most these provided only a few months of respite. She has tried acupuncture, hypnosis, narcotics, electrical stimulation, antidepressants, heat therapy, ice-water therapy, all to no avail. Four years of suffering have conditioned her to cradle the stinging limb against her body, as though an invisible sling were holding it in place. The left hand has been used so infrequently that the muscles have visibly wasted away. Although the nails are beautifully manicured, the skin on her hand is paper dry. Daubing on lotion simply hurts too much. She looks weary. It is hard to sleep...
Dosojin began as a primitive fertility symbol, an expression of a people of the land who saw the highest affirmation of life in its potential for creation. So if these deities expose an organ of increase to a passerby, it is not to sling an obscenity but to bless him with the healthful prosperity of generation. That is why, at New Year's, the Nagano Dosojin festivals are children's celebrations, where new life honors the continuance of life. If the rest of the year children throw mud at the deity, or whip it with sticks, or urinate...
...computer in her cream-colored stucco house in South Minneapolis is surrounded by children's books, laundry, ajar of Dippity Do. An experienced programmer at Control Data before she decided to have children, she now settles in at the computer right after breakfast, sometimes holding the baby in a sling. She starts by reading her computer mail, then sets to work converting a PLATO grammar program to a disc that will be compatible with Texas Instruments machines. "Midmorning I have to start paying attention to the three-year-old, because he gets antsy," says Hardinger. "Then at 11:30 comes...
Miraculously, it was Staley, arm in a sling (bursitis of the shoulder) until three days before the tournament, whose skills were at their sharpest. The freshman raced through Johns Hopkins' Linzie Gould and number-four seed Patrice McConnel of Princeton before succumbing to Porter in the semis...
...California Senate race. Like the incumbent, Senator S.I. Hayakawa, 75, the former talk-show host is pro-choice on abortion. Maureen also has an instinct for the political jugular. As she once declared during her father's presidential drive: "We will certainly be able to sling the mud, to kick below the belt, to trip, to scratch if we have...