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With flying fingers, fine sutures and a potent arsenal of drugs, surgical teams have become so successful at transplanting organs that the demand for viable tissue has far outstripped supply. In 1967, the first person ever to feel the beat of another man's heart in his own chest survived for just 18 days after the operation. Today, more than eight out of 10 heart recipients live at least a year with their borrowed organs. For kidney transplants, first-year survival tops 90%. As success rates soar, doctors attempt ever more variations on the transplant theme: installing a new pancreas...
Etiquette: the word evokes images of crinolines, cotillions and debutante balls. But at Chicago's DePaul University, good manners are essential weapons in the arsenal of the young job hunter. For four years now, undergraduate training has included a formal "etiquette dinner," where $25 buys graduating seniors a multicourse meal at a ferociously fancy hotel -- and a crash course in social grace from experts in the art of power schmoozing...
...yesterday afternoon, Harvard proved it has one more cannon in its youthful arsenal, as Downing exploded for five first-half goals, humbling the Elis as Harvard took an early 6-1 lead...
Hellfire. Carried by the Apache, only 112 of the antitank missiles were to be bought next year. Though 29,500 were still in the arsenal, that number was deemed insufficient and $42.4 million has been assigned to purchase 1,063 more of them...
None of that would have been true if the enemy had been the Soviet Union, the foe the Pentagon had in mind when it built its arsenal and doctrine. In that case the fleets would have been attacked by submarines, and huge battles for air superiority would have raged in the sky over the battlefield. And if some future battle had to be fought in the jungles of, say, the Philippines or Peru, it would have nothing like the operational clarity of last month's war in the desert...