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...example, when a subject moves his right hand, the PET scan indicates increased glucose use by the region of the left side of the brain controlling the action. Physicians have begun to use PET scanning in determining therapy for people who have had strokes or epileptic seizures. Measuring metabolic activity in the brains of stroke victims or those with occluded arteries can aid doctors in deciding whether surgery would be beneficial. Scans can also help locate areas of the brain suspected of inducing epileptic seizures...
More change lies ahead. Early last month, Superior General Pedro Arrupe, 73, who was responsible for overseeing the society's troubled course in the stormy years since the Second Vatican Council, was felled by a stroke. A Spanish Basque, like Loyola, Arrupe served nearly three decades as a missionary in Japan before being elected the order's leader in 1965. Though Arrupe is expected to leave the hospital this month, he is not likely to resume the arduous job of managing the Jesuits. Just last year, in fact, Arrupe made the unprecedented announcement that he wished to resign...
...billed at the time as a bold stroke to free Canada's $40 billion oil and gas industry from foreign domination. In fact, seldom has a single governmental action more thoroughly disrupted a country's economy than has the National Energy Program put forth last October by the government of Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau...
DIED. Karl Böhm, 86, august Austrian conductor celebrated for his lucid, authoritative interpretations, especially of Mozart, Wagner and his friend Richard Strauss; of a stroke; in Salzburg, Austria. Despite the international scope of his appearances and recordings, Bohm remained most closely associated with three great native institutions: the Vienna State Opera (at which he served two stints as director), the Salzburg Music Festival and the Vienna Philharmonic. A stickler for detail who shunned showmanship for clarity and fidelity to the score, he once said: "I bring to conducting my own enthusiasm for the music-and then there...
...Intern was apprenticing at Boston's great metropolitan daily, and so had access to a great many free tickets. He often took his companion along when he went out. His companion had gone by many different poses over the years, but during the summer, due to an extraordinary stroke of luck, he was a Foreign Car Driver. Although he couldn't really afford a foreign car, he'd banged on the thing long enough to make it run in a Continental fashion. There were still four or five parts of the carburetor on the living room table, but they didn...