Word: sectionalism
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...comprehensive as this book is, there are some regrettable omissions. For example, there are only a few value judgments. In the section on oranges, it would have been helpful if the author had explained that those from Florida are juicier and sweeter than their California counterparts but have a less distinct true orange flavor. Although McGee describes how eggs are washed during the process of being prepared for market, he does not add that the practice is prohibited in European Community countries because it removes the protective bloom, a film the hen deposits on the shell. McGee also gives scant...
After a month of late nights, Saturdays and Sundays spent covering the Lebanon hostage crisis, members of TIME's Nation section figured they could finally relax last Friday afternoon and began looking forward to a summer weekend. The cover story planned for this issue had been scrapped in midweek when the Coca-Cola Co. announced the return of the old Coke, and the editors had ordered a crash cover on the business and social implications of the surprise move. This time, the Nation staffers thought, the crunch was on the Economy & Business section, which had mobilized quickly, worked round...
...there proved to be no need for more sweeping measures. The operation, which took 2 hr. 53 min., went smoothly. A team of six doctors headed by Navy Captain Dale Oller, chief of general surgery at Bethesda, snipped out a 2-ft.-long portion of Reagan's colon, the section containing the 2-in.-long polyp, and sewed the intestine back together. "Our patient, our President is doing very, very, very well," Oller announced about an hour after the surgery was completed. "The operation went absolutely perfectly." There were no signs of the complications that sometimes develop during or shortly...
...25th Amendment, which provides a model for presidential succession, was ratified in 1967. But Section 3 of the amendment, providing for transfer of power in the case of presidential disability, has never been used, even following the 1981 shooting, when Reagan was incapacitated for some five hours. The amendment allows a transfer of power when the President is "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office." It outlines two procedures for doing this. The first calls for the President to write to the president pro tern of the Senate and the Speaker of the House declaring his incapacity...
...grown through the connective tissue under the colon's inner lining into the layer of muscle that helps the colon contract. Yet their tests suggested that none of the malignant cells had spread beyond the intestine. Thus it was likely, though not certain, that in removing the 2-ft. section of Reagan's colon that contained the polyp, the surgical team had freed the President of cancer...