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...found to have on his dead body an unopened letter with the same prophecy--previously handed to him by a mysterious man on a motorcycle. His is the epitome of the deaths of all great political martyrs--high drama that turns all the world into a stage--but the villain remains anonymous...
...problem is neurotic, but Zindel warps it into cultural dimensions it doesn't deserve. When her brother-in-law refuses to lend her the capital she needs to open up a tea shop and "get back on the map," Zindel would like to brand Darwinian America as the villain, but in spite of himself all the dramatic evidence points to Beatrice herself. She pits a tough exterior against ghetto inertia, but Zindel is noncommital about the reasons for her vulnerability. She does deserve some sympathy, but his drooling pathos has taken the bite out of Beatrice's stiff upper...
...embolisms-blood clots that generally form in the leg veins and travel to points where they block arteries leading to the lungs. Many of these deaths probably could be prevented. The patients may be immobilized because of minor surgery or for other reasons. That lack of movement is the villain; blood that is pooled and stagnating in the legs tends to clot. It has been known for years that thigh-length elastic stockings aid in controlling clot formation. Now, in the Archives of Surgery, a research team at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and at the Philadelphia Veterans Administration Hospital...
...flashes of humor, and when he talks of descanting on his own deformity or wonders at the blindness that finds him a marv'llous proper man, he means what he says. In even his blackest lies, we sense some sincerity, as though he has indeed determined to prove a villain reluetantly, after sounding his own nature and discovering that he cannot prove a lover...
Grim Paradox. Until recently, heroin was considered the major villain. As more and more young female addicts have been enrolled in methadone maintenance programs, however, doctors have discovered a grim paradox: methadone is preferable for the adolescent or adult for a number of reasons-in eluding the fact that it does not normally produce the euphoria of heroin-but for the infant it seems to be even more dangerous than heroin...