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...marketing community of Benton Harbor. A grade-school dropout who was the master of mostly untaught arts, he was the self-proclaimed Seventh Messenger of Christ. Though one coruscant message was celibacy, Purnell was accused more than once of seducing teen-age girls in so-called purification rites. Another tablet from Purnell's private Sinai was the promise of earthly immortality, a cup that Ben himself let pass, dying in 1927 of tuberculosis, diabetes, hardening of the arteries, asthma, interstitial nephritis and a leaky heart...
...woman just beginning to notice the hot flushes and sweats that are the warning signs of oncoming menopause, Dr. Wilson prescribes estrogen tablets daily for seven to 21 days a month, adjusting the dosage until her femininity index is restored to 80% or better. For a woman with more severe symptoms, he prescribes estrogens plus a ten-day course of a synthetic progesterone substitute. A woman who is clearly past the menopause gets estrogen daily for six weeks plus a progestin tablet on each of the last ten days. The effect of this treatment is to restore a pseudomenstrual cycle...
...Catholic association. Although the society began in Spain, the founder moved its headquarters to Rome, precisely to emphasize the worldwide nature of the association. Finally, although a search for a one-word capsule summary of a typical member is probably impossible, I would not choose "shock trooper." Perhaps "salt tablet" would come closer. The chief thing that members have in common is a dedication to serve God and to serve the world through their professional work-to be "the salt of the earth," as Christ used the term...
...Middle Ages, the questions that philosophy asked were determined largely by theology; today major philosophical issues are posed by science. Says Chicago's McKeon: "The new priests come from the lab and hand us the tablet-how do we handle it?" Philosopher Hubert Dreyfus of M.I.T. is wondering about the possibility of creating a computer that would be completely determined by programming but would behave as if it were a free, intelligent agent. "If something that we knew was just a machine could behave intelligently," he muses, "it would tend to suggest that maybe we are just machines." Would...
Back to Quinine. Medically, the most disturbing aspect of malaria in Viet Nam is the appearance of falciparum parasites that are resistant to chloroquine, which was hailed only a few years ago as the almost perfect antimalarial drug. U.S. servicemen take a weekly prophylactic tablet containing 300 mg. of chloroquine and 45 mg. of another antimalarial known as primaquine. If they develop malaria despite this, they are likely to be infected by a resistant strain of parasites. If massive doses of chloroquine fail to bring the fever down within a few hours, the medics may switch to pyrimethamine (Daraprim), which...