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Next step is to select two especially fine sago trees, which are the Asmat's principal source of food. The warriors stalk the trees as if they were human enemies and attack them with their deadliest weapons. After being ''killed,'' the trees are partially stripped of bark and dressed in leaf skirts like women. Six weeks later, the trunks are split open to collect and eat the finger-size beetle grubs that have grown inside them. Without these grubs, which are full of fat and considered delicious, no Asmat religious operation can hope...
With the battle over for the moment, the troops rested. Several of the Rangers began to stalk the small sparrowlike birds that frequent Vietnamese canals; from time to time, one of the soldiers would lunge for a bird and fall into the water, to the uproarious laughter of his comrades. Souvenir-hunting Rangers moved among the wounded Viet Cong prisoners, pulling from their fingers their silver identification rings...
...both carotid bodies? After tests on animals, Dr. Nakayama tried taking carotid bodies from his patients. They needed only a local anesthetic, though to get at the glomus, he had to sever one of the thyroid arteries. He cut the carotid body's own little artery, snipped the stalk by which it is attached (actually a bunch of nerves), and removed it. In seven years of wholesale surgery, Dr. Nakayama operated on almost 4,000 asthmatics, now reports that 81% had good results for at least six months, 58% for five years, while 16% have had no more attacks...
...quiet supper and told his wife he was going out for a stroll. "He put on his coat and left, but without kissing me, which he usually did," Lillian Resnick recalls. A block from his home, Resnick spotted the Studebaker. The killers had told him they would stalk him in the street, shoot him in the back of the head, and collect their pay from his pockets...
Williams has peopled the U.S. stage with characters whose vibrantly durable presences stalk the corridors of a playgoer's memory: Amanda Wingfield, the fussy, garrulous, gallant mother of Glass Menagerie; Streetcar's Blanche DuBois, Southern gentlewoman turned nymphomaniac, and its Stanley Kowalski, the hairy ape in a T shirt...