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...passing episodes, lasting from minutes to several hours, of 1) numbness in a limb or the face; 2) weakness or drooping on one side of the body; 3) speech difficulties; 4) blurring of vision, usually in one eye; 5) dizziness and double vision; or 6) severe headache and a stiff neck. Anyone who experiences such "little strokes" should visit a physician promptly. Many of these premonitory strokes result from a blockage in the internal carotid artery above the jaw line, where it is beyond reach of the scalpel. Thus the obstruction may be treatable only by a difficult bypass, diverting...
Rudyard Kipling, the laureate of British imperialism, of the white man's burden, and the stiff upper libido now seems a literary fossil. His world began to wobble after 1918 and the war that took the life of his son. The colonial India where he was born in 1865 lives on in Monty Python skits. In America, Kipling's credit lines followed those of Gary Grant and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. in Gunga Din, Errol Flynn and Dean Stockwell in Kim, Sean Connery and Michael Caine in The Man Who Would Be King and, of course, Sabu, star...
...government action, humans ingested high concentrations of PBB. Even now, however, PBB remains in the food chain. Floyd Jones, a dairy farmer, said last week, "I've got cattle that slowly die. They're extremely thin right now and they've got pus oozing out of abcesses. They're stiff and lame and not giving any milk, of course. They've been tested and they're perfectly legal to put on the market for consumption." His family does not consume anything the farm produces now, Jones added...
Although his family no longer eats anything his farm produces, the PBB has affected them, Thomas said. He said his family is chronically anemic and fatigued, frequently suffering from abnormally stiff and sore joints. "We saw the same symptons in our cows," he said. His son, who has been exposed to PBB since he was an infant and has abnormally high levels of the chemical in his body, has an enlarged liver and spleen. The doctor who examined him thought the condition may have been due to the PBB, but knowledge of PBB's effects is so sketchy that...
...dances in last week's Boston program suggested particularly strong emotional overtones. In one, "Solo," Cunningham's own dancing captures with eerie accuracy the furtive watchfulness of a hunted animal. From Cunningham's entrance--back swayed, neck stiff, knees bent, arms and hands contorted downwards, the dance is shot through with images of deformity and entrapment. Cunningham hunches down on the floor, all crippled angles, his head and tongue jerking like a lizard's. His hands tremble fitfully, one foot gropes outward in blind patterns, or--suddenly alert in awful stillness--he glances warily offstage. Movements sputter for a moment...