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...improvement entirely to the Soviet doctors and therapists, whom he found much more compassionate than American physicians. Said he: "You couldn't get a tear out of a doctor here even if you stuck an onion in his face." As Waldrep described it, his Leningrad regimen involved strenuous physiotherapy (weight lifting, massages, etc.), five-day-a-week sessions in a high-pressure oxygen chamber and, most controversial, daily muscle injections of a tissue-softening enzyme called hyaluronidase. The Soviet rationale for its use: it can prevent and break down scar tissue around damaged spines, thereby presumably encouraging regrowth...
Goldstein, for his part, thinks that much of the improvement results not from any basic change in the spinal cord's condition, but from the Soviets' strenuous physiotherapy. Says he: "Braces and boots support the body's weight and keep it upright while the walker is pushed ahead. Then the arms support the body as the legs swing forward. It's not walking. And if the strength in the arms and upper body is not kept up through continued intense rehabilitation, then it's back to the wheelchair." Sadly, he adds, for most paraplegics...
...There he would be hooked up for hours at a stretch to a kidney machine that would purge his body of poisonous wastes. Yet, in spite of his life-threatening ailment, Morgan continues to lead an active life, helping his father run the farm. Sometimes he even does such strenuous chores as chopping wood, herding cattle and baling...
Thus after ten weeks of strenuous haggling, of constant commuting by jet between Washington and the Middle East, of reassuring hand holding by President Carter and Secretary of State Vance, the two principals nudged their way reluctantly, morosely toward something that might pass for agreement. One thing that might serve to lure them closer together is the Nobel Peace Prize, which the two are due to receive on Dec. 10. But Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat were slouching toward Oslo, counting every pace and grumbling over every step...
...strenuous clique and the vociferous claque, of artful pressure groups and willful activists who effectively control many things by veto and filibuster. Factions of all sizes and configurations, alike only in self-service and single-mindedness, tend to dominate virtually every salient issue of the day, be it abortion, water conservation, nuclear power or the location of bridges and expressways. Draw an issue anywhere and contenders will rally on both sides, or several sides, shouting up influence out of all proportion to their numbers. These days every political and social issue tends to be seen as a consuming cause...