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Superstition's Stigma. Although history's epileptics feature such notables as Mohammed and Napoleon Bonaparte, the vast majority have been stigmatized by superstitions that attribute the disease to demons. The actual cause is unknown, but seems to be related to a disturbance in the cerebral cortex. A patch of the cerebral cortex-the brain's command post -gets irritated, and sends out waves of involuntary impulses. On the receiving end, the body muscles respond with spasmodic convulsions-the epileptic seizure. In the average victim, the seizure passes within five minutes. Drugs, among them Dilantin and phenobarbital, eliminate...
...Commander Shepard's reactions to space flight. A group of physicians reported on the astronaut's physical condition before the flight and after: his temperature was slightly higher after landing, and his heart was beating a little faster than normal. A broken toenail and a small patch of sunburn were noted as preflight lesions...
...foot on the throttle and coasted along the center of the track, conserving fuel and carefully steering clear of slower cars. "I spent my time," he said later, "wondering what to do with myself." Then, with only six laps left, Sachs's luck also ran out. A patch of white appeared on his right-rear tire. As he drove on, the patch rapidly widened, a sure sign that the rubber was wearing off and that a blowout was imminent. With only ten miles to go. Sachs gave up, conceded the lead to Foyt and pulled into the pits...
...when, tired of trying to sell baby photographs in Los Angeles, he heard from Montana ranch buddies that you could get $10 just for falling off a horse. In those days they stretched ankle-high wires across fields to make sure that Indians and horses hit the proper patch of dust. Cooper survived, got a new first name (his own was Frank, but his pressagent was homesick for Gary, Ind.) and a feature part in Sam Goldwyn's The Winning of Barbara Worth. Paramount grabbed him from Goldwyn at $125 a week. Studio pressagents tagged...
...tradition of homespun philosophers (Mumford proudly possesses no university degrees), his esthetic judgments are liberally laced with moralizing. Though Manhattan-raised, Mumford has a gardener's love of greenery, likes to weed in the vegetable patch between paragraphs. And the less a city becomes like a village, the more it rouses Mumford's wrath. In a prescient 1922 essay, The City, he warned: "The movies, the White Ways and the Coney Islands, which almost every American city boasts in some form or other, are means of giving jaded and throttled people the sensations of living without the direct...