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Sound Reasons. But there is no arti ficial liver comparable to the artificial kidney, and there is no hope of devising one soon, because the liver's multiple tasks are even more complex than the kidneys'. Surgeon Eiseman eventually decided to use a pig's liver, and for sound medical reasons: a pig's liver is about the same size as a man's, performs the same functions, is just about the cleanest liver in the animal kingdom...
...painstaking care he puts into the pictures he takes, Dr. Jacob Gershon-Cohen could be one of the arti est of arty photographers. In his darkened studio, the temperature has to be just right-a steady 68° to 72°. He insists that subjects stretch out and relax for 15 minutes before the first picture is snapped. But Dr. Gershon-Cohen, a radiologist at Albert Einstein Medical Center in Philadelphia, is the extremely careful scientist, not the temperamental artist. Borrowing a technique space researchers use to take temperature readings of Venus, he photographs the human body's surface...
...members include Janet Abramowicz, a painter and print-maker with a diploma from the Academia delle Belle Arti in Bologna, Italy; Marcia Allentuck, a lecturer in English literature at City College in New York, who will study British and German aesthetics and literature; and Ingrid G. Brainard, a musicologist who will prepare a study of 15th century dancing and its contribution to cultural history and musicology...
...line generals were in the ascendancy at the Army's top, the Nazi party bosses had no intention of losing their control over the rank & file. Unabashedly they borrowed an old idea from their bitter Russian enemy: an arti. cle in Hermann Göring's Essener National-Zeitung disclosed that political commissars were being assigned to Wehrmacht divisions to bolster German soldiers' morale, political philosophy and will to resist throughout the war's "decisive phase...
...addition to the human body of some arti ficial part...