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Snickers float through the rafters. A few moreminutes pass. There are less than 30 secondsremaining in the game. The god with the pretzelnudges his friend's stomach...
...giving way to the impatience of younger Estonians. They are gambling that the economic crisis of the U.S.S.R. is so severe and so all absorbing for the Kremlin -- and that preserving the goodwill of the outside world is so crucial -- that not even hard-liners will have the stomach for a crackdown. For a while, the Balts may settle for some kind of semiautonomous status in a far looser Soviet confederation. But in these dizzying times, "semi" may become a euphemism for almost total, and "a while" may be a matter of a few years rather than decades...
...daily vitamin supplement that has a silicon thermometer and the electronics necessary to broadcast instant temperature readings to a recording device. By having a patient swallow the pill, doctors can pinpoint worrisome hot spots anywhere within the digestive tract. Future "smart pills" may transmit information about heart rates, stomach acidity or neural functions. Says Russell Eberhart, program manager at Johns Hopkins' Applied Physics Laboratory: "This could change the way we diagnose and monitor patients...
Last week, just a day before the anniversary of his lopsided defeat by George Bush, Dukakis' woes turned more personal. His wife, a recovering alcoholic, was rushed semiconscious to a Boston hospital, where her stomach was pumped. Kitty Dukakis had in a desperate and irrational act downed some rubbing alcohol. These days liquor is forbidden in the Dukakis home. At first Kitty tried to conceal the real story, but two days later, the family doctor released a guarded statement declaring she was suffering from exhaustion and depression. Kitty, the statement explained, had lately been taking antidepressants, a perilous mix with...
Soon survivors will suffer a host of complaints, from headaches and stomach pains to flashbacks and suicidal thoughts. Victims of Hurricane Hugo, which lashed the Southeastern U.S. last month, are showing the expected strains. "About all of the people we talk to have sleep disturbances," says Dr. James Ballenger, head of the psychiatric institute at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston. "They are constantly fatigued. They leave briefcases at home. They forget appointments. They cannot concentrate...