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...Those qualities, together with his obviously urgent need, convinced the university selection committee that Clark should be the world's first human to receive a permanent artificial heart. "He was a man worth waiting for," said Committee Member Peg Miller. Those same traits enabled Clark to endure the arduous operation on Dec. 1 and to struggle for 112 days through the perilous and uncharted territory of life with a plastic heart...
...light moments. Asked by professor of Byzantine History Iher Sevoako about what sorts of jobs Harvard could offer non-registrants, Rosovsky noted a variety and then added, "When I say there are lots of jobs, most of them are not drinking tea in the Ukranian Institute--however arduous it may be," eliciting laughter from the faculty...
...feet underground in rock formations stable enough to keep the deadly waste safe and dry for at least 10,000 years. The first site will be limited to a 77,000-ton capacity. The new law requires a procedure for site selection that is deliberately arduous, involving numerous reviews, full-scale tests, public hearings, environmental assessments and consultation with state and local officials. Then the President must recommend his final site choices to Congress-the first by 1987, the second...
...secretly and with such an abhorrence of publicity that many of his top colleagues in the Middle East literally did not know how he was faring. For more than eleven weeks, Philip Charles Habib shuttled back and forth across the Middle East, following an itinerary that would have been arduous for a young man, let alone a 62-year...
...been at least that. The rebels captured the biggest prize of their arduous struggle when they shot down a helicopter near the Honduran border carrying Deputy Defense Minister Colonel Francisco Adolfo Castillo, 45, and the military commander of Morazan department, Colonel Salvador Beltran Luna, 45. The two officers were flying over rebel-held territory on a reconnaissance mission when their craft was struck by automatic-weapons fire. Beltran Luna was killed in the crash, but Castillo survived and was taken prisoner by the guerrillas. Several days later, Castillo was interviewed during a broadcast on the rebels' clandestine radio station...