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Answering Althusser's cry for help, "Normale Sup's" school physician discovered Hélène Althusser, 70, dead on their bedroom floor across the courtyard. An autopsy next day disclosed that she had indeed been murdered: her larynx was fractured and her thyroid gland damaged, common indications of strangulation. But before police could question Althusser, he was hustled off to a psychiatric hospital. During the past few years, he has suffered from increasingly serious bouts of depression, to the point that he was unable to teach this fall...
...second installment of Asimov's autobiography appears formidable. It turns out to be even more entertaining than Volume I, In Memory Yet Green. Covering the years between 1954 and 1978, In Joy is a detailed account of the writer's literary recognition, his marital failure, his thyroid cancer, his heart attack and the trauma of turning 40: "But the evil day came. On January 2, 1960, I was forty years old. To be sure, there's nothing wrong with middle age, but it comes hard to a person who is a child prodigy by profession. Of course...
...could such a thing have happened? The hospital is still investigating the incident, and saying little. But its spokesman did report that both doctors spotted the error in mid-operation and halted their work. Stranger still, the doctor mistakenly operating on Mrs. Edmondson's thyroid discovered and removed a benign nodule while the doctor mistakenly operating on Mrs. Robinson's vertebrae cured her of an unrelated pain in her leg by somehow relieving pressure on her sciatic nerve...
...Instead of a "periodic" (usually interpreted to mean once a year) general checkup for cancer, including physical examination of the breasts and pelvis, testicles and prostate, thyroid, lymph nodes, mouth and skin, the A.C.S. now suggests one every three years between ages 20 and 40, and annually thereafter...
...Twelve babies have no thyroid function at all--the doctors expected one," she said, attributing the rise to the low level radiation discharged by the plant...