Word: armed
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...center is a "huge booster shot in the arm" for the Harvard medical community, said Benjamin Sachs, codirector of the new center who is also chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center...
Brady was quick to stress that the prize committee was wise not to select Gerry Adams, the head of Sinn Fein, the political arm of the Irish Republican Army...
...radical, headline-grabbing operations know the value of good publicity. So it was something of a shock to an international team poised to perform the world's first successful hand transplant to discover that they had chosen a man with a record as long, so to speak, as his arm...
Embarrassed as they might have been, the surgeons had no grounds for canceling the operation--especially given how badly Hallam wanted that arm. He was so eager to be a guinea pig, in fact, that he'd also registered with a U.S. group that had hoped to be the first to transplant a hand. The winning team insisted they were not in a race with the Americans or anyone else, but they couldn't help crowing last week. "They may well be in a race with us," Australian microsurgeon Dr. Earl Owen told the New York Times, "but they will...
...least one group in Washington has escaped the long arm of the Lewinsky scandal: AmeriCorps. The national service program is a favorite of President Clinton?s, and its supporters were worried that it might be a target for his congressional critics. But the four-year-old program has won over skeptics by emphasizing its grassroots structure and its alliance with respected nonprofit organizations around the country. Members are selected by and work for such groups as Boys and Girls Clubs of America and Habitat for Humanity. AmeriCorps prevailed on a key Senate funding vote in July...