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It was not clear what he meant by hemiparicia. A similar-sounding condition, hemiparesis, is defined in Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary as "muscular weakness affecting one side of the body."
These days, though, tales of future shocks seem like distant fantasies. OPEC remains a cartel held together by the loosest of links. Three months ago the group agreed to cut production by 7%, to 15.8 million bbl. a day, and prices later jumped by about $4, to more than $19...
It was only after Lancaster had given birth to a second son who showed some of the same mysterious symptoms that a family doctor began to suspect the cause. He had just returned from a medical seminar on a newly recognized disorder called Fragile X syndrome, which results from a...
His one acknowledged weakness, his love oftalking, makes Jewett seem all the moreaccessible. Colleagues and students alike praisehim for what seems to be a genuine interest instudents and an understanding of what their livesare like.
That, of course, is where fantasy slyly enters Hughes' movies. In real life, questioning the adolescent social structure usually ends in baffled hurt, not instructive triumph. When Hughes' characters and situations are intensely enough drawn (as in The Breakfast Club), one scarcely notices such manipulation. But Some Kind of Wonderful...