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...also true that in preparing for Big, one scene of which displays all but a few centimeters of Hanks' pelt, he had to work out for weeks at a Manhattan gym, huffing and puffing to reduce that upholstered posterior, expand that narrow chest and flatten that soft stomach. Even so, he will not give Arnold Schwarzenegger any competition. In fact he found himself gasping at the end of a tough scene in which he and Robert Loggia dance a duet on giant piano keys embedded in the floor of a toy store. "It was exhausting, like jumping rope...
...surprise when mobs of student protesters sparred with policemen in Seoul last week and tossed homemade bombs at the U.S. embassy. The demonstrations were fueled by a grisly incident: the ritual suicide of a 24-year-old chemistry student, Cho Sung Man, who stabbed himself in the stomach and jumped off a four-story building to protest the detention of political prisoners...
Although the techniques of student activism have changed, some of the problems that plagued the movement 20 years ago have not. Many activists in the 1960s "appeared to have no stomach for hard, tedious, daily organizing, no respect for and little contact with the people in whose name they claimed to be acting," wrote Thelwell in The Village Voice last March. Some students see similar problems with activism in the 1980s...
...most difficult of operations: multiple abdominal transplants. Doctors in the U.S. have tried such surgery only four times in the past four years. Just one patient, now seriously ill, survives. Ten-month-old Michael Steward of Chicago received a new liver, pancreas, small intestine and part of the stomach in February to correct a congenital defect. Last week, a record 6 1/2 months after a similar operation, three-year-old Tabatha Foster of Madisonville, Ky., succumbed to cancer. The lesson: physicians have a great deal more to learn before they can manipulate the immune system at will...
...cells that attack tumors. Expensive -- upwards of $80,000 for one course of treatment -- and dangerous, IL-2 is usually reserved for patients with advanced cancer. Amy Hance, 25, of Bloomington, Ill., reached that stage early this year. Melanoma, a deadly skin cancer, had spread to her liver, spleen, stomach and lungs. The determined Hance opted for experimental IL-2 therapy, even though side effects -- including fever, massive fluid retention, anemia, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea and heart and lung problems -- had killed several patients...