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...mitral valve was sent home to sit in a sunny corner and play cribbage until congestive heart failure swept him away. Open-heart surgery was big news. One of the pioneers was C. Walton Lillehei at the University of Minnesota, a local celebrity on the order of Dr. Albert Schweitzer. The operations were enormously expensive, the survival rate around 50%, and Minnesota has always had plenty of finger waggers to remind you that all that money spent to repair that fat man's aorta could have bought nourishing breakfasts for X number of orphans. But Doc Lillehei was surrounded with...
...other interest groups run during campaigns to help their favorite candidates. And the 38-member Congressional Black Caucus is divided on doing away with soft money, which it wants for turning out African-American voters. "The bill goes too far in reducing the role of national parties," complains Representative Albert Wynn, who chairs the black caucus' task force on campaign reform...
...Henley Royal Regatta was founded in 1836 and has been raced every year since then outside of the two World Wars. The regatta is termed “royal” because it received royal patronage from Prince Albert in 1851 and the ruling monarch has served as patron in the years since...
...ALBERT EINSTEIN when: 1916 what he did: Introduced the "cosmological constant," a form of antigravity, to make general relativity agree with a cosmos that seemed not to be expanding...
...Person of the Century: Albert Einstein...