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Surgeons have known for 400 years that patients who undergo amputations continue to have "sensations," ranging from a pleasant tingling to excruciating pain, in the limb that is no longer there. They have dubbed it "pain in the phantom limb." Now surgeons are coming around to the idea that the best way to exorcise many cases of phantom pain is by phantom exercise...
...Allen Sidney Russek of New York University's rehabilitation center pioneered the exercise method as part of an effort to treat both the physical and emotional aspects of the pain. It is especially important to get rid of phantom pain if an artificial limb is to be fitted, says Dr. Russek, or the patient may be deterred from trying to use the new limb...
...film with a plot. Daughter of Chicago American Gossip Columnist Maggie Daly Bazlen, Brigid is compared by flacks to Elizabeth Taylor and described by associates as a "woman-child" with "something inside her that is 30." In How the West Was Won, she ends up hanging from a tree limb because she lures Old Trapper Jimmy Stewart into a cave, goes for his pelt and tries to kill him. When she is really 30. she'll probably...
...tongue too big for his mouth; to eat the fat trout quickly cooked after the catching; to backpack his gear through glades and trails and to know the relief of rest; to climb high along the creature trails, grabbing suddenly for a fall-saving hold on a limb...
...spokesman later reported the raid proudly. Fortnight ago in Luanda, a country coffee planter spotted two Africans he believed had been with a rebel band that burned his plantation. He led a pick-up mob of whites down Luanda's main street. The mob literally tore one man limb from limb, pitched the other screaming off a six-story roof to crash through the candy-striped umbrella of a sidewalk cafe. The police casually watched...