Word: tracts
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...single human stomach cannot. Next comes a group of polysaccharides, consisting of complex sugar chains. The third type is lignin, which not even intestinal bacteria can degrade. Fiber of any kind provides little caloric nourishment; its main value is in absorbing water so that the contents of the digestive tract are bulky, loose and easily excreted. Grandma knew this when she advised her family to eat more fruits and vegetables in order to avoid constipation. These are good foods indeed, said Kay, but the most useful water absorber and stool loosener is coarse wheat bran, which soaks up three...
...most cases, what the average victim calls his "stomach ulcer" is actually located in the duodenum, the next lower chamber in the digestive tract. Traditional methods of treating ulcers have been of limited value: antacids, whether recommended by the doctor or the TV set, give only short-term relief, and some (notably that old stand-by bicarbonate) may cause harmful side effects. Bland diets-baby food and milk and cream-are unbalanced and unsatisfying. Antispasmodic drugs are of dubious value and have serious side effects. Surgery to cut out part of the stomach or sever the nerves that govern...
...residents will only approve the proposal if Harvard makes a long-term commitment to upgrade and maintain the rest of the tract as a public park, Basler said, adding that since the University acquired the land 18 years ago, it has kept the plot fenced off and overgrown...
Died. Nathan Homer Knorr, 72, third president of the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, the 105-year-old denomination also known as Jehovah's Witnesses; after a long illness; in Wallkill, N.Y. During his 35 years as president of the society, which believes that Armageddon is near at hand, Knorr helped build up its membership from 113,000 to 1 million, in 80 countries. A vigorous preacher, Knorr charged that organized religion was working the world's destruction by perverting the Bible's teaching...
...going to happen. It was better that he didn't, because he intended to look DuPont in the eye and say, "Write a novel sir," to which DuPont would have snorted "Balderdash!" or something equally puerile. But Shapiro was fascinated by what was moving up from his gastro-intestinal tract; slowly yes, but inexorably moving, and he felt the way pharoah's charioteers must have felt when they saw the Red Sea falling in on them, and nowhere to run. Up, up, up it came--and there it was, he figured he might as well make it good, and threw...