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...sugars properly. And some diabetes patients will certainly be referred to blood-pressure specialists, who in turn will consult endocrinologists. If the diagnosis of an adrenal tumor is confirmed, a surgeon will then have the difficult job of finding and removing a nodule only about one-sixth of an inch across. After that, suggests Dr. Conn, the patient will lose both his high blood pressure and his misdiagnosed "diabetes...
...Argonne contracts multiplied, Mickelson taught friends and neighborhood housewives how to make the tiny (one-twelfth inch wide) cores, and private companies began buying them...
...Cross orderly in Madrid during the Spanish Civil War, I was present when a badly frightened soldier was admitted to an army hospital with an eight-inch unexploded mortar shell partially embedded in his shoulder. Surgeons and demolition experts deliberated on the advisability of deactivating the shell before attempting surgical removal. In the meantime, the victim decided to take matters into his own hands, forcibly wrenched the shell from his shoulder. He tried to hand it to one of the experts, but quite suddenly he was all alone in the room. Eventually the shell was deactivated, and the soldier made...
...broke his rolls before he buttered them. He politely said nothing about the veal cutlet. He refolded his napkin neatly when he was through. He wore a charcoal herringbone suit, and he buttoned his vest all the way-so only his tailor knew for sure about those 17-inch biceps, that 46-inch chest and that 32-inch waist. But the banquet toastmaster was not fooled for a second. "Gentlemen," he firmly announced, "I give you Superman...
Primeval Presumption. During an electron microscopic examination of samples of ancient, black sedimentary rock from South Africa, Paleontologist Barghoorn uncovered the remains of 3-billion-year-old, rod-shaped organisms so small that 50,000 of them, placed end to end, would measure only an inch. Until his find, the oldest known forms of life were more complex tiny organisms-also identified and photographed by Barghoorn (TIME, March 12)-that existed about 2 billion years ago. With the older specimens, he now believes "we are getting close to an area in time-say within a half-billion years-of possible...