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...Friday, as deadline neared, we received word that George J. Church had died of kidney failure on New York's Long Island. In his 25 years here, George was one of the solid rocks on which TIME was built. A master of journalistic compression and clarity, he wrote 126 cover stories, still the record. His ability to command volumes of fact and reams of endlessly incoming reporting was legendary. As deadlines loomed, he deftly recast stories with fresh information, whittling them to fit the constraints of the printed page with nary a loss of substance and ever increasing levels...
...ablutophobia: fear of bathing acarophobia: ... itching acerophobia: ... sourness achluophobia: ... darkness acousticophobia: ... noise acrophobia: ... heights aerophobia: ... drafts, air agliophobia: ... pain agoraphobia: ... open spaces agrizoophobia: ... wild animals agyrophobia: ... crossing the street aichmophobia: ... needles and other pointed objects ailurophobia: ... cats albuminurophobia:.. .kidney disease alektorophobia: ... chickens alliumphobia: ... garlic allodoxaphobia: ... opinions amathophobia: ... dust amaxophobia: ... riding in a car ambulophobia: ... walking amychophobia: ... being scratched anablephobia: ... looking up androphobia: ... men anemophobia: ... wind Anglophobia: ... Britain anthophobia: ... flowers antlophobia: ... floods anuptaphobia: ... staying single apeirophobia: .... infinity apiphobia: ... bees arachibutyrophobia: ... peanut butter sticking to roof of mouth arachnophobia: ... spiders arithmophobia: ... numbers asthenophobia: ... fainting astrophobia: ... celestial space ataxiophobia: ... muscular incoordination ataxophobia: ... untidiness...
DIED. GAIL FISHER, 65, groundbreaking African-American actress-model who won an Emmy for portraying secretary Peggy Fair on the long-running '70s detective series Mannix; of kidney failure; in Los Angeles. Credited as the first black actress to earn a speaking part in a national TV ad (for All detergent), she turned her bit part on Mannix into a major role within one season...
...heart of problem is this: It took Nature 3 billion years of evolution to produce cells that have the awesome power to develop autonomously, through staggeringly complex chemical reactions, into anything from a kidney cell to a full thinking human being. We are about to harness that power for crude human purposes...
...careful about what's in your medicine cabinet. Prolonged use of some medications, such as steroids (prescribed for asthma, arthritis and kidney disease), anticonvulsants (for seizure disorders) or aluminum-based antacids, can weaken your bones. Smoking and drinking are both bad for bones, as is prolonged weightlessness, for anybody who plans to work on the space station...