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Spirit rejuvenated, Raffi, 43, is experiencing the indignities of middle age. He suffers from chronic fatigue syndrome, a hernia, bursitis and high cholesterol. To cleanse his system of impurities, he eats only brown rice and fruit. For the hernia, he sleeps with a magnet on his stomach...
Alpert says the rats posed a problem not only to the weak-of-stomach, but also to the sanitation workers who would often fend off rodent attacks during their daily rounds...
Several balls flew around at waist level. More than one body fell to the turf. Two players received green cards for "unecessary roughness," specifically a slash and a cleat in the stomach. Loren Ambinder broke her nose in a head-on collision...
What Your 1st Grader Needs to Know (Doubleday; $15) asks youngsters, among other things: What did Little Miss Muffet sit on? What does a stomach do? Which is the biggest continent? Who was Louis Armstrong? The second-grade volume advances to questions about Robin Hood, the Great Wall of China, counting to 100 and the human sperm...
...help them? The chiropractic literature is replete with examples of astonishing cures of ulcers, hypertension, childhood asthma, blindness and even paraplegia. But individual case histories prove nothing, and organized studies are few and far between. Spinal manipulation has been shown to alter the heartbeat and the acidity of the stomach, says Peter Curtis, a medical professor at the University of North Carolina, who studied the technique, "but whether you can cure a peptic ulcer or angina is another question entirely." The A.M.A. withdrew its earlier condemnation of chiropractic as a cult in 1988 -- after federal courts ruled it an unfair...