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...been fired, tests are made of both hands. To determine whether a rifle has been fired, tests are made of both hands and the area on both sides of the face near the cheekbone, the cheek remaining in immediate contact with a rifle when the trigger is pulled...
Problem of Choice. Not until 1943 was a more elegant and rational attack on ulcers adopted. Since the stomach-wall cells are activated by the vagus nerves (which explains why stress or emotional upsets can trigger the ulcer process), Chicago's Dr. Lester R. Dragstedt figured that cutting the vagus nerves would cut down the acid output. His operation, "vagotomy," is not as simple as it sounds: surgeons often have difficulty finding and cutting all the nerve fibers in the bunch. And by itself, vagotomy is not consistently effective. So vagotomy has been combined with hemigastrectomy (second diagram...
...swarmed through the Wall for their first reunions with eastern sector relatives since August 1961. A long row of glowing charcoal braziers warmed the approach to the Oberbaum Bridge, and two brightly lit Christmas trees guarded its western end. On the other side of the River Spree, even the trigger-happy East German Vopos wore grins above their cradled submachine guns...
...hours on Tuesday afternoon-and they wanted $240,000. Frank got his friend Al Hart, president of Beverly Hills' City National Bank, to get the money together. Hart had it photographed for serial numbers. Then the FBI saw to it that the "drop" was made without alarming any trigger fingers, leaving the money between two school buses parked overnight near a service station. About 12:30 Wednesday morning the kidnapers picked up their prize of $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100 bills-12,400 notes in all, wrapped in an 18-in.-square package-and about two hours later...
...winter vacation has become so commonplace that the sting of the first sleet is likely to trigger automatic thoughts of palm trees and bathing suits -even for those who will have to fly-now-pay-later...