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Operations performed in outpatient programs include plastic surgery and some ear, nose and throat operations, as well as hernia repairs and minor orthopedic surgery. Many hospitals also find the outpatient approach ideal for the removal of benign tumors and cysts and early abortions. Even for those relatively minor operations, though, hospitals select their patients carefully, turning back the elderly or those with physical conditions that are likely to cause complications...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Outpatient Operations | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

...perhaps to question the ragged rain falling all around her. Instead she moaned, a primitive sound she had never made before, and fell to her knees on the mud dusty porch floor, her hands straining towards the rain. She felt caught on the moan, trapped. It sailed from her throat into the wailing wind...

Author: By Alta Starr, | Title: A Southern Sister/Inside This Closed Northern Shit | 3/27/1973 | See Source »

...throat fills with thorns and she wants to scream. The thorns prick into her life and bleed fire. Why should he comfort her in his lame-ass way? She doesn't even know his name. She mustn't awaken him again, oh no; but it would be better to move, to vanish, than scream, for she has no idea where the scream would take her. So with infinite slowness she begins to wriggle from his embrace. He is unaware...

Author: By Alta Starr, | Title: A Southern Sister/Inside This Closed Northern Shit | 3/27/1973 | See Source »

...Arab robes instead of his customary military uniform, Numeiry damned the killers in terms designed to have maximum emotional impact on his people. Alluding to the Sudanese custom of slitting an animal's throat when butchering it for a feast, he said that the commandos had "slaughtered their hostages like goats." Then, he added, they had left their corpses "to rot" for more than one day (an insult to the Moslem practice of burying the dead within 24 hours). Sudanese law provides for capital punishment in first-degree murder cases, but Middle East observers think that heavy prison sentences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: A Blacker September | 3/19/1973 | See Source »

Clearly chosen by the district attorney as a test case, Deep Throat has explicit sex scenes that differ little from those in dozens of other hard-core porno films. It is unusual only in its unexpected popularity. The film has grossed an estimated $1,000,000 at the World since it opened last June, and another $4,000,000 in 70 other theaters across the country, making it the most successful pornographic film ever shown. In the World's case, however, success may possibly backfire; New York's obscenity law allows a fine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Sexes: Tyler's Style | 3/12/1973 | See Source »

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