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...fact that women develop unexplained infections of the urinary tract more often than men has long been observed but not understood. Now, Urologist Jack Lapides of the University of Michigan finds that the answer lies in toilet habits: most women urinate less frequently than men. The reasons, says Lapides, are social and cultural rather than physiological...
...classes or on dates. By then she may be deluding herself with the idea that her restraint strengthens her bladder. On the contrary, says Lapides, it causes the bladder to become distended, with its walls taut and blood circulation diminished. This in turn reduces the resistance to infection. Urinary-tract infections may manifest themselves by a burning pain during urination. Eventually, they can involve not only the urethra and bladder, but extend up to the kidneys. They are among the most stubborn and hard to treat of common infections. Penicillin is usually ineffective, and urologists have to rely on other...
...Forest Service, for example, still sells off timbering rights, most recently in the Tongass and Chugach national forests. The Bureau of Land Management fights Alaska's grim forest fires; four years ago, one fire consumed a tract as large as Massachusetts. The Coast Guard protects the Alaskan fishing industry from constantly marauding Japanese, Russian and South Korean fishermen. As if to symbolize Washington's dominance, the Federal Building in Juneau is a huge glass-and-steel cube that literally overshadows the rambling old stone statehouse...
...course, we have witnessed a fair number of attempts to "explain" the Harvard strike, relate it to ensuing events, speculate on its relevance to the "youth movement," and bundle up the whole affair in a neat little package. We have suffered through the compressed political and sociological tract that demands a remarkable suspension of basic intellectual instincts; muddled through the straight-forward factual account whose tedious details could only interest those who were deeply involved in them; and marveled at the bizarre near-hysteria of the participant who later bared his soul in print...
...Smiling and remarkably steady on their feet, the astronauts were greeted by cheers from sailors and a fitting musical tribute from the Iwo Jima's band: Aquarius. Nine doctors on hand to meet the space travelers found them in surprisingly good health?except for Fred Haise's mild urinary-tract infection?after their exhausting and agonizing adventure...