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More surprising was Dr. Silverman's report that heart disease acquired relatively late in life-including coronary occlusion-may be signaled by changes in the hand. Warm, moist hands with a fine tremor and occasionally clubbing* of the fingers, he said, suggest the possibility of an overactive thyroid with resulting inefficiency of the heart, and twitching of its upper chambers. A cold hand with coarse, puffy skin may be due to an underactive thyroid, and associated with fluid in the heart sac, a high blood-level of cholesterol, and even necrosis of part of the heart muscle from...
...villagers had time to flee, scores of people were crushed to death in cascades of masonry in such neighboring towns as Montevago, Gibellina, Santa Margherita di Belice, Salemi and Santa Ninfa. Montevago's lawyer, along with five companions, perished trying to race the tremors in his tiny Fiat. The town's doctor died on his way to save his mother. The earthquake was by far Italy's worst since 75,000 people were killed at the other end of tremor-prone Sicily 60 years ago. The toll: as many as 500 people dead, more than...
With less money available to borrow, all sections of the economy will feel the pinch. But as the Fed intended, it will be modest. Even the stock and bond markets, normally the first to react strongly to tighter money, took the news without a noticeable tremor because both had been expecting...
...most important consequence "would be the psychological and political impact of our defeat." The nations of South and Southeast Asia, he writes, "would feel much less secure if the U.S. were forced to admit defeat at the hands of Communist insurgents. Such an outcome would send a massive psychological tremor through all these countries, further threatening their stability and perhaps sharply shifting their present international orientation." A U.S. defeat, he believes, "would seem to be proof positive of the Maoist doctrine that what the Communists call 'wars of national liberation' are irresistible...
...TREMOR OF INTENT, by Anthony Burgess. This lively tale of espionage is only trompe I'oeil; behind it flows the broad seriocomic vein that is the source of all of Burgess...