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...Britain's Surgeon Dennis Walder, the basic mistake in research on Raynaud's disease has been its concentration on the blood vessels involved instead of the blood itself. And when a study of 22 patients at Newcastle-upon-Tyne showed that in 21 cases their blood was thicker than that of healthy subjects, Walder felt sure he was on the right track. But he needed to know just what was causing the blood to change-and merely measuring its viscosity was no easy task...
...Upwards of a hundred lay prostrate on the ground--some speechless and some with the bitterest cries, but with their hands raised, imploring God to save the world and them. The scene was truly awful for never did rain fall much thicker than the meteors fell that night...
Some seek physical solutions-better-planned cities, apartment buildings with thicker walls, atrium houses that turn their backs on the street, telephones that truly turn off. Others seek psychological solutions: psychiatric therapy to make up for the loss of privacy, or the secular equivalent of religious retreats...
...flat and only spottily foliaged. I could see the Se Kong River in the background. A note I made at the time says: 'No question about it. From the river going east [toward South Viet Nam] is a large road. The trail winds and turns, the trees growing thicker in a narrow valley.' Sometimes we lost sight of the road. But it seems safe to conclude that it is one continuous trail capable of carrying trucks from Cambodia through Laos into Viet Nam. We flew eastward, diving to less than 1,000 ft. for as close a look...
...last week was the dismissal of the head of the national police, an appointee of ousted Buddhist I Corps Commander Nguyen Chanh Thi, who was replaced by one of Ky's loyal Air Force colonels. The Directory's caution was probably well-advised. Coup rumors were even thicker than usual, and Viet Nam's Catholics showed signs that they may pick up the troublemaking where the Buddhists left...