Word: stomach
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That's a dangerous idea, some critics say, arguing that Jamison romanticizes the illness. She bristles at the suggestion. "It's a fact that a dis pro portionate number of artists appear to have the disease compared with the general population," she says. "Why is that so hard to stomach? If 80% of composers had thyroid disease, no one would have a hard time accepting that . And I've said over and over again that you don't have to have manic depression to be creative. In fact, most creative people...
DIED. MICHAEL ENDE, 65, author; of stomach cancer; in Stuttgart, Germany. An actor and a playwright before he turned to writing children's books, Ende achieved his greatest success with a 1979 fable about an overweight, outcast child who discovers his own worth in a struggle to save a magical land. The Neverending Story, which was translated into more than 30 languages, spawned a 1984 hit movie and two sequels...
Though Mantle had been sober for more than a year, 42 years of drinking caught up to him on May 28, when he entered Baylor Medical complaining of stomach pains. On June 8 he received a liver transplant that outraged those who thought, incorrectly, that he got preferential treatment...
Unlike Tums, Mylanta and other popular antacids, these so-called H2 antagonists actually stop the stomach from churning out corrosive juices rather than just neutralizing them after they have formed. They cannot provide immediate relief, but their effects tend to be long-lasting--which has some critics of the OTC trend worried. They fear that prolonged, unsupervised use of H2 antagonists could mask such serious problems as gastric reflux, in which stomach acids back up into the esophagus and eat away at its inner lining...
Meanwhile, many Republicans can't stomach the extent to which the agenda of the Christian right has become the agenda of the Republican Party. Thus some of Powell's friends and supporters argue that he should run as a Republican. Although the best G.O.P. operatives have already signed on with other candidates who have raised tens of millions of dollars, Dole has not caught fire, and many Republicans who back him publicly are "for Dole for now," in the words of one Powell booster. New Hampshire permits independents-more than 30% of the electorate-to vote in the G.O.P. primary...