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...flights to London or Bombay. Women and children are swathed in silk saris and wear whatever jewelry they own in order to prevent it from being stolen or confiscated; even the smallest child wears pearls in her ear lobes or nostrils. The men have developed a reflex of patting breast pockets to make sure their passports are still there. Strangers identify themselves to one another by mentioning the names of companies they were associated with. "National Trading," says one woman, referring to one of the country's largest wholesale merchants. "Desai Bros., General Dealers," says another...
With one hand holding a torch that resembles a melted ice cream cone and the other clutching an enormous glossy breast, she is perched on a bar stool with an American flag between her legs. In a triumphal pose she stares down as a new god of America's reproductive process. This is disgust tinged with humor similar to Pop art of the early...
...coincidence and business as usual. Sarah McClendon, the redoubtable journalist with the foghorn voice, lobbed one into Nixon's cool and respectable press conference last week, and for a moment the President seemed to have been hit with a brick. Why didn't he "make a clean breast" and explain the Watergate case? she bellowed. Nixon, taking a few seconds to recover, calmly answered that the case was being investigated and legal niceties required that he not comment. But the question lingered. Is it believable that the President of the United States really does not know what...
...experts are uncertain why some varieties have yielded so little to new treatment methods, but the contrast between pancreatic cancers and many other types is startling. The three-year survival rate for patients with bladder cancer increased from 48% to 62% during the period covered by the study; for breast cancer, from 63% to 72%; for cancer of the cervix, from 53% to 63%. Improvements were also shown for cancers of the thyroid, prostate, larynx, brain, skin and bone...
Earlier diagnosis, which enables prompt surgical treatment, is credited with reducing fatalities in cases of breast, cervical, prostatic and rectal cancers. The chemotherapeutic approach, in which drugs are administered in series or in combination, is being used with encouraging results against Hodgkin's disease, a cancer of the lymphatic system, and other systemic cancers...