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What did finally help Siegel was a new variant of an old emergency surgical procedure: the tracheotomy−cutting an opening into the windpipe and thus totally bypassing the blocked breathing passage. First introduced in apnea a decade ago, such operations . have now been performed on about 30 Americans at the 20 U.S. sleep centers now in existence. The procedure is relatively simple, but leaves the patient with a hole in his throat...
Step Toward Bliss. Such persistence is not hard to fathom. The Dalai Lama is, after all, believed to be the very reincarnation of the Buddha in Buddhism's Tibetan variant. To see him during one of his rare public appearances is a step toward bliss. To hear the Wheel of Time sermon, however, is a guaranteed shortcut to nirvana. Such a blessing is rarely available. A Dalai Lama delivers the sermon only a few times during his lifetime, six being the customary maximum. At Leh, the current Dalai Lama was delivering his sixth sermon...
...Deputy Assistant Secretary for Health, Dr. Theodore Cooper, says vaccines are effective against flu about 80% of the time, but other scientists argue that vaccination offers only haphazard protection. Because flu viruses mutate so frequently, vaccines produced to combat one strain may be less effective against a genetic variant that appears later in the same season. If appropriate inoculations could always be prepared in advance, doctors would have been able to prevent the outbreak of A/Victoria flu this winter among Fort Dix recruits-who were vaccinated against three other viral strains. Admits Virologist Gary Noble of the U.S. Public Health...
...like opponents who can swallow you up like giant clams sucking down helpless Hawaiian pearl divers? Prince Ieukea, the Hawaiian nobleman who has given up his crown to become a big-time wrestler, can take on two Howless (Hawaiian variant of honky) at one time and turn them into bloody papua. Ieukea eventually had to be banned from the sport after he attacked Don Ho, who was in he audience in Honolulu that evening. Don Ho had called him a "tin horn sport." Ieukea dislocated Ho's shoulder before the ring police stepped in to "quiet him down...
Ford insisted that there was "no cause for alarm," but added that "we cannot afford to take a chance with the health of this country." Experts agreed, pointing out that whenever an entirely new flu strain has appeared (as opposed to a minor variant like A/Victoria), it has been followed by a massive outbreak the following season. When that happens, the death toll can be high, even in an era of antibiotics (to fight bacterial-linked infections) and other forms of treatment unavailable in 1918-19. During the most recent pandemic in 1968-69, for example, about 28,000 Americans...