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The Duke of Windsor's marriage to Wallis Simpson in 1937 lent a certain acceptance to marrying a divorced woman, and no doubt many copycat marriages followed, some of them less than successful. It is noteworthy that most subsequent photos of the duke showed a sad man. Now Prince Charles...
Self-examination for signs of skin cancer is simple, requiring little more than a full-length mirror, a hand mirror to see one's back and a blow-dryer to examine the scalp. "The ability of people to detect skin cancers is tremendous if they're motivated," observes Dr. Robert...
The green monkey may be more than a clue to AIDS' past, says Essex; it may hold a key to future treatment. Despite evidence of infection with an AlDS-like virus, the monkeys are perfectly healthy. This is not true of rhesus monkeys, which develop AlDS-like symptoms when infected...
Last week, as the news of Rock Hudson's illness spread, AIDS researchers and patients alike were hopeful that his plight, and his decision to reveal it, might finally dramatize the threat of the growing epidemic and bring calls for a more effective medical counterattack. Says Dr. Alvin Friedman-Kien...
Dubrovnik has had that effect on visitors for more than a millennium. Byzantine Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus wrote of "the city ... on the cliffs" to his son in the 10th century. The poet Lord Byron called it "the Pearl of the Adriatic" in the early 19th century. In the 1930s the...