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...operation in question, a modification of one devised in 1912 for controlling incurable metabolic disorders, is chancy at best. It is based on the fact that shortening the digestive tract cuts down on caloric absorption, enabling excessively overweight people to shed pounds regardless of how much they eat. To perform it, the surgeon severs the small intestine near the end of the jejunum, or second section, and connects it to the ileum just above the beginning of the colon. This in turn reduces the length of the active small intestine from 23 feet to a mere 30 inches, drastically lessening...
Drouin had dead-ended the digestive system, creating a closed tract that could only be emptied by vomiting. One patient, a 32-year-old truck driver who weighed 385 lbs., choked on his own vomit and died nine days after the operation. When an autopsy revealed the reason, Drouin brought the other patients, two sisters who weighed nearly 300 lbs. each, back into the hospital for corrective surgery. It was too late; both women had already developed abdominal infections and other complications; both died...
...paying 30% or more of their income to the landlords for their land, seed and the use of a buffalo. Typical of the tenants was Tran Van Cau, 42, a farmer in the Delta village of Tan Loc. For ten years, Cau had tilled a small 4½-acre tract; he paid rent first to a local landlord, then for six years to the Viet Cong, then to the original landlord, who moved back after government troops "pacified" the village in 1968. Today, Cau serves only his own family of six. He keeps the title to his land, rolled...
...perhaps, to a certain extent, because of it), the place had an allure. It was a challenge to the imagination and to the will. And in many ways, it was strangely beautiful. Even now, if you look beyond the gray tangle of freeways, past the checkered patterns of tract houses, through the brown veil of smog even now, some of the beauty remains. In the dawn, the air is pale and still; only the eucalyptus trees stir, their leaves flickering silver high up in the new light. With the sun warm at your back, you can look to the east...
...making real gains in readership, is Ideas, a self-styled "journal of conservative thought" aimed at intellectuals. Its conservatism extends to politics as well as theology. One article last year by Editor Michael S. Kogan was called "Ignorance Abroad"-and turned out to be a fierce anti-Communist tract warning of the dangers of policies of accommodation with China...