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MOST CREATURES' brains secrete a simple substance which acts as the brain's own painkiller. Why should such an effective self-installed mechanism exist in such a variety of animals? Lewis Thomas, chancellor of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York, can only wonder. "There it is, a biologically universal act of mercy," he writes. "I cannot explain it, except to say that I would have put it in had I been around at the very beginning, sitting as a member of planning committee...
...accounts are valuable in portraying the development of medicine throughout his career. Treatments administered when he had just left school seem archaic compared to the techniques he now uses at the Sloan-Kettering Center. That Thomas can write a book that simultaneously traces both his own life and the come of medicine underscores his important role in medical research over the past 50 years...
...from $15,000 to a lofty $85,800, has so far scheduled recruiters from 300 companies for interviews with its 782 graduating M.B.A. candidates. That corporate guest list is 8% smaller than the 1982 version, which was down 5% from the year before. Placement officers at M.l.T.'s Sloan School expect some 150 firms to call, down nearly 15% from the level of two years...
...them all free--more than 500 brand new sequences, more than 2000 new frames-- and we'll all put down our books, walk out of our classes and spend the day with our new treasures, with our old friends, with Zonker. Mark. B D,. Joanie Rick, Uncle Duke, Rev. Sloan Huney, Mr. Slackmeyer, Phred, Bernie, J.J., Boopsie Zeke, Lacey and Dick Davenport, Roland B. Hedley Jr., Jimmy and jenny Thudpucker. Ellie. Howard, Riley, Woody, Lava-Lava, Dr. Dan Asher, kirby, Barney, Weinburger, Duane, Ginny, Clyde, Nicole and Mike Doonesbury...
...intravenous drug abusers. One child's mother appeared to have AIDS and died of PCP. This pattern provides strong support for the theory that AIDS is spread by an infectious agent. But, says Dr. Richard O'Reilly, an immunologist at New York City's Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, "whether it is transmitted by close association after birth or through the placenta, we do not know...