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...ever precarious hold on sanity. Only his ability to transmute his inner torment into dramatic art saved him. His is a classic case of what Edmund Wilson called "the wound and the bow." From the suppurating wound of his domestic life, as un-healing as was the eagle-torn liver of Prometheus, he gathered the strength to draw the bow of craft, passion and insight and to launch an arrow of dramatic significance that is still in flight more than half a century after his death...
...coronary death rate among widows between 25 and 34 is five times that of married women in the same age group. At all ages, the divorced are twice as likely as the married to develop lung cancer or suffer a stroke. Among divorced white males, cirrhosis of the liver is seven times more common, and tuberculosis ten times more common...
...substitutes such as Tylenol and Datril, which contain the drug acetaminophen. Though this drug has the advantage of not causing the stomach irritation associated with aspirin and though it can be taken by the few people sensitive to aspirin, it also has drawbacks: in large doses it can cause liver damage. In addition, since it is not an anti-inflammatory agent, it does not work against the swollen joints characteristic of arthritis...
...institution is toppled and all behavior patterns are violated, the euphoria of freedom turns to boredom. Today the vitality of Los Angeles is beyond dispute, but San Francisco's health is questionable. The city that spawned a counterculture now leads the nation in suicide and cirrhosis of the liver. Nor is California any longer a rollicking trend setter. While innovators in other states experiment with megastructures and mass transit, Californians dawdle with their latest amusement: the video game...
...life." In industrialized societies, environmental factors have already been proved to be responsible for up to 40% of all human cancers; for example, doctors have found a high incidence of an otherwise rare form of lung cancer in workers exposed to asbestos, and are discovering another rare form of liver cancer among those who have worked with vinyl chloride. In 1958, a British physician named John Higginson was challenged by a skeptical scientific community when he suggested that 70% to 80% of all cancers are environmental in origin. Now many scientists suspect that the actual figure may be closer...