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Blake Schultz appeared to be doomed before he was even born. While he was in his mother's womb, a hole opened up in his diaphragm and allowed his stomach, spleen and intestines to press into his chest cavity and put pressure on his lungs. The grim prognosis: at birth, he would probably be unable to breathe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Major Surgery Before Birth | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

...roller coaster ride into the future could turn even more stomach churning if the split within Solidarity itself precipitates a political crisis. Trade-union leader Lech Walesa, who has made no secret of his presidential ambitions, has been pushing for elections even earlier than next year, which is when the government proposes they be held. But Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki opposes moving up the date, arguing that a campaign now would distract attention from economic reforms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Poland Living with Shock Therapy | 6/11/1990 | See Source »

Benjamin W. Parker, a Harvard custodian whose kind manner toward people and animals earned him the nickname "Gentle Ben" during his 45-year tenure at Harvard, died last Sunday of stomach cancer...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Custodian Dies After Dedicated Career | 6/6/1990 | See Source »

...knew what by choosing Women's Studies she would be taking many chances--risks that are not so easy to stomach with an education that costs almost $20,000 a year...

Author: By Madhavi Sunder, | Title: Women's Studies 'First Band Of Concentrators Remembers Trials, Joys in the Field | 6/6/1990 | See Source »

...mowing the lawns at Oak Hill cemetery and caught his foot in the mower; another who was cleaning the meat-slicing machine at a restaurant and cut off his fingertip. A 40-year-old man with black hair and gray skin is complaining of sharp stomach pains. He is HIV positive and taking AZT. "That's what someone looks like who's going to die soon," Dr. Michael Bourland explains quietly as he moves on. Doctors here agree that they make the vast majority of their decisions within the first 15 seconds of seeing a patient. But some things simply...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Do You Want To Die? | 5/28/1990 | See Source »

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