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...Orleans, the Ochsner Foundation Hospital has counted 41 injuries from barroom broncos since Aug. 1. Most victims come in with bruises, sprains and lacerations; one ex-rodeo rider broke his thumb. Faced with an epidemic, the Ochsner staff is compiling data to alert other doctors to "urban cowboy syndrome...
...Washington was doomed to be a hated city from the start. A country with historical inclinations to thumb its nose at Big Government and to mock politicians is not about to embrace the center of Big Government, the politicians' Disney World. Yet sometimes there is the suggestion of an embrace. It occurs in oblique ways, as when aggrieved masses of people march on the city for a cause because Washington is the only place in the country they can yell at. It also occurs every June when some of the brightest and most talented university graduates head...
...adds up to an uncompromising future for the man who claimed he had Philadelphia's underworld under his thumb. Myers' chances of taking this election, according to the Inquirer's political reporter, stand at "a million to one"--a slightly higher figure than Abscam dangled in dollar signs before Myers' eyes...
...which stones were removed. He has some hearing loss (attributed by his doctor, John Reynolds of Los Angeles, to age, and by Reagan to the noise of a revolver fired too close to his ear while he filmed a movie in the 1930s. He also has an arthritic right thumb, and suffers from hay fever. Reagan rides and uses an exercise wheel regularly. According to his doctor, the wheel has contributed to "his upper torso and chest muscles [being] really well preserved...
...syndrome, and a mite that dies before it is born, in addition to discussions of cartoon characters--remains entertaining throughout in large part because of Gould's style. He allows us to share his feelings of excitement and wonder about the world of natural history. In "The Panda's Thumb" essay, for example, Gould tells us of his childhood adoration of pandas and how delighted he was "when the first fruits of our thaw with China went beyond ping pong to the shipment of two pandas to the Washington zoo. I went and watched with appropriate...