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Back in the operating room, Bailey removed Fae's defective heart and replaced it with the heart from the baboon. Because baboons have only two major arteries leaving the aortic arch, as opposed to the three in humans (see diagram), two of the baby's vessels were first joined together before being connected to one of the two arterial openings in the baboon's aorta. When the delicate plumbing job was completed, doctors slowly raised the infant's temperature and weaned her from the heart-lung machine. At 11:35 a.m. on Oct. 26, four hours and five minutes after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Baby Fae Stuns the World | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...place, like pellets sprayed from a shotgun." He is particularly disenchanted with the postmodernist eclecticism that has become fashionable in the past decade. "You cannot evoke the past by simply taking historical symbols and using them as applique," he maintains."What does it mean to put a Roman arch over someone's house in Connecticut? Nothing. Architecture has to do with the totality of the building, not the application of illiterately assembled elements...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Design: Taking On an Imperial Task | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...Utah Wayne Owens (D) 76.086 41 33 E--Norm Bangerter (R) 110.080 59 Vermont Madeleine Kunin (D) 70.851 49 78 John Easton (R)* 71.947 50 Washington E--Booth Gardner (D) 220.471 54 29 John Spellman (R)* 186.095 46 West Virginia Clyde See Jr (D) 238.435 49 71 Arch Moore Jr (R) 251.802 51 Denotes an income E--Denctes a winning candidate

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gubernatorial Races | 11/7/1984 | See Source »

...remaining four days Martin devotes to other writing: book reviews, speeches, a new novel titled Style and Substance. Her first, Gilbert, a rather arch attempt at a comedy of manners, received generally favorable reviews in 1982. She has also published a collection of newspaper essays, The Name on the White House Floor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: I Have Ten Forks | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

...rich, seductive vocals of Linda Hopper and Lynda Stipe. Whether they are reciting rhymes like "One-two buckle my shoes" in flat monotone, or creating beautiful, dark harmonies in "Choukoutien" and "Elaine's Song", Hopper and Stipe manage to embrace both the earthy and unearthly, without sounding arch or immature...

Author: By Marek D. Waldorf, | Title: Nursery Rhymes for Modern Times | 8/7/1984 | See Source »

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