Word: wakeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Russian Roulette. When a woman enters the hospital for a biopsy, her surgeon usually asks her permission to perform a mastectomy if the biopsy should be positive. Thus most women go under anaesthesia without knowing whether they will wake up breastless or not. Surgeons defend this practice on the ground that it reduces both the risk and the expense of two operations. Even so, some women would rather know beforehand what they face, and some surgeons agree that there is no harm in waiting a few days between a biopsy and a mastectomy. "A cancer isn't going...
...describe Secretary of State Henry Kissinger's strategy of "gradualism," which he began pursuing after last year's October war. It has included ceasefires, face-to-face Israeli-Arab meetings, and partial withdrawal of Israeli forces occupying Sinai and the Golan Heights. This week, in the wake of Kissinger's sixth postwar visit to the area, comes another crucial moment...
...Mobutu, 44, also known as "le Guide," "le Clairvoyant," "le Redempteur." Without undue modesty, he has also chosen another name for himself that roughly translates as "the all-powerful warrior who, because of his endurance and will to win, will go from contest to contest leaving fire in his wake." Most of the news items are about Mobutu, and the broadcast closes with a commentary on "Mobutuism"-an amalgam of nationalist and self-help bromides that are credited with having "made of Zaire and Zaireans what they are today." Adulation of Mobutu does not stop at the TV tube. Millions...
...class and time impressed a querulous split on his radical concern for absolute justice. "The Soviet is a crude form of our old-fashioned New England town meeting," he affirmed; and he added that "a sudden amount of perfect equality today thrown on the world would bring in its wake an equal amount of perfect melancholy...
Death takes no holidays in this ward; it is only impeded by intrusive, intensive care. As one inmate puts it: "They keep you busy here. They even wake you up to give you a sleeping pill...