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This Man Wants to Control Your Dreams
One morning in 1961, Leonid Rogozov woke up in agony. As the only medical professional on a Soviet expedition to the depths of Antarctica, he self-diagnosed his searing pain as a case of acute appendicitis—a condition that could be fatal without immediate …