Word: clustering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first thing one senses is that the Israeli race to dig in is over. Only once, beside the Suez Canal, did I see earth movers working in a cluster, bolstering causeways that already looked forbiddingly high. Elsewhere, telephone and electric lines are in place, water pipes are underground. Fences and electronic gear do sentry duty; few military vehicles or troops are noticeable. But they are there. "We've got everything we need," said an officer in a forward post. "One shell and I'll be ready to make war in three minutes, maybe less...
...that was so cozy and comfortable for so long, the Japanese have come to accept your thesis that their long near-total reliance on Washington's leadership is now obsolete-a relic of the cold war era when there were just two antagonistic giants, each with its own cluster of clients. But while they welcome a little more independence, the Japanese fear that the new five-power future espoused by the President could be as unworkable as the old two-power world. As they see it, Nixon's (and your) new world is already so lopsided...
Equally debilitating are cluster headaches, which strike their victims repeatedly for relatively short periods. A siege of intermittent pain can last several months. These headaches, which usually affect one side of the head in much the manner of migraines, are seven or eight times more likely to afflict men than women...
...John Graham, head of the Headache Research Foundation at Boston's Faulkner Hospital, believes that personality may be at least partially responsible, since clusters generally hit proud, hard-driving individuals who work under substantial self-imposed stress. Graham has found that most cluster sufferers are similar in appearance, with prominent masculine features and reddened, grainy, deeply furrowed skin. Dilation of blood vessels is also apparently present in clusters. Therefore liquor or a dose of any drug that expands vessels, like nitroglycerin, can trigger or worsen an attack...
Modern medicine has more potent weapons. Ergotamine tartrate, an ergot, or rye fungus derivative, constricts painfully swollen blood vessels and helps many migraine-and cluster-headache patients. Tranquilizers can also provide short-term relief of the tension that can trigger a severe headache. Psychological treatment to uncover emotional causes has worked for many people. But for some patients, nothing works very well. Taking what small solace they can from the fact that they are in famous company, they must do what headache sufferers have done for many centuries -learn to endure their ailment...