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...least a decade and more recently as an experimental therapy for other immune-system disorders like lupus erythematosis, myasthenia gravis and polymyositis, it is somewhat similar to hemodialysis for kidney patients. For three or so hours, the blood is slowly tapped from the body, shunted into a centrifuge, spun and separated into its constituents by weight: heavy red cells sink to the bottom, white cells settle in the middle, platelets and fluid plasma rise to the top. Components can be selectively removed and the rest of the blood returned immediately to the patient...
...huge banks of motorized mirrors track the sun and focus its rays into a cyclops-like eye of red heat. A mountain in North Carolina has been crowned with what appears to be a giant aircraft propeller. A large man-made atoll, resembling a top that Gulliver would have spun for the Lilliputians, may soon be floating off the coast of California. All are imaginative, experimental devices to help find and develop alternative energies, which would alleviate the dangerous dependency on OPEC...
...work at 2 a.m. Fortnight ago, as Sliwa and two other Red Berets drove off six men trying to rape a woman on a Brooklyn elevated platform, Sliwa disarmed a man with a sawed-off shotgun by using a Kung Fu kick to the head. But he himself spun over the guardrail and fell 18 feet into a freight yard. He suffered only heavy bruises and strained muscles...
...music's more recent trends, Zappa recently observed, "Disco music makes it possible for mellow, laid-back, boring kinds of people to meet each other and reproduce." Marshalling his talents to forge a particularly scathing attack on disco, Frank wrote "Dancin' Fool," which is due to be spun at Boston-Boston any night now. In this song, some lame guy decides he'd rather be a fool and get laughed at than not dance at all. "I got it all together man / With my very own disco clothes,hey! / My shirts half open, t' show you my chains...
...outsiders, the island today is in the throes of a more benign importation. It could be called condo fever. Symptoms:-More than 1,000 people gathered at Kapalua last July to engage in a form of real estate roulette. The names of "registered" prospective buyers of condominiums were spun in a revolving cage to decide which 134 lucky ones would get the chance to shell out an average $205,000 each for unbuilt one-or two-bedroom town-house units on leasehold land, with projected ground rent and maintenance charges of $300-$400 a month...