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Eventually, persistent oxygen starvation can cause gangrene; fingers or toes may have to be amputated. One familiar treatment, an operation to cut nerve trunks and thus inactivate the nerves that control the stretching and shrinking of small arteries, is a painful failure in a majority of cases.
Guitars & Tennis Rackets. Unable to view or even get close to the battlefield itself (unlike Westmoreland, who tours his commands four times a week), Giap must rely on reports from his commanders in the field that he cannot check -which probably leads to a rosier picture of the war than...
The marks of man's incursion on the wilderness are by now unmistakable -bullet-riddled trail signs, garbage-strewn campsites, carved-up tree trunks and paint-smeared rock faces. To Mrs. Margaret Robarge, wife of a Seattle postal clerk, such wanton destruction, which she first encountered on a pack...
From several holes in the ground, one as large as 12 inches in diameter, De Lumley has deduced that the roof of the dwelling was supported by beams or tree trunks. The people who lived there may have been pre-Neanderthal men, like those who inhabited a cave discovered earlier...
(8 of 12) Point officer worrying about growing corn for peasants!" Westmoreland, who is so gung-ho a West Pointer that he looks well-pressed in swimming trunks, does worry. "Today's soldier," he says, "must try to give, not take away."