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...deal with a chronic problem I have. I would talk to the patients in my office and lead off the discussion by saying, "You're here not for an operation, but for an opinion." And I continued to be struck at how many misperceptions cloud the view that patients have. I realized that the only way I was ever going to really make a dent, an epidemiologically significant dent, was to write a book of this nature that explains what I think I know about how the human body works in a way that people could understand...
...against libel suits. In recent years the court has sometimes seemed more sympathetic to those bringing libel suits, but this time the Justices ruled 5 to 4 that in cases involving "matters of public concern," private individuals must prove that damaging press statements about them are false. The action struck down rules in Pennsylvania and eight other states that had put the burden of proof on media defendants to show the statements were true. The case arose when Maurice Hepps, principal owner of a beverage- and snack-retailing chain, sued the Philadelphia Inquirer for reporting that his chain might...
...times," White says, "when a whole team reaches down for something that's even better than winning. I know it sounds impossible." On the subject of impossibilities, consider three hits, 18 men retired in a row and a 1-0 victory that ended on a strikeout. "When I struck Rance Mulliniks out," Leonard says, "it was like I finally was home. Everyone ran out on the field except Mick, and he was the one I was waiting for." In the dugout, the pitcher pressed the ball into his trainer's hand...
...Soviets, who do not believe in coincidence, were struck not only by what Reagan said but by where he said it. According to a senior Soviet diplomat, Reagan's Glassboro speech contributed to Gorbachev's interest in a minisummit similar to the Glassboro meeting...
...first tremors struck at 11:55 a.m. Friday. By nightfall El Salvador's capital, San Salvador (pop. 800,000), was virtually cut off from the rest of the world, plunged into darkness and littered with rubble. Though the quake, at 5.2 to 5.4 on the Richter scale, was considerably weaker than the 8.1 killer that leveled much of Mexico City last fall, it appears to have wrought terrible destruction...