Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...clock in the morning a full moon shone over Maseru (pop. 75,000), capital of the tiny African kingdom of Lesotho, a mountainous enclave within South Africa. Most of the residents had gone to bed, except for a few night owls playing the slot machines and roulette wheels of Maseru's two casinos. Suddenly the staccato of gunfire rocked the night. Lesotho had been invaded...
...major complication occurred before dawn Tuesday as Clark lay in bed in the security-guarded third-floor intensive care unit. He was chatting with Dr. William DeVries, the surgeon who had implanted the mechanical organ. Asked Clark: "How am I doing?" Replied DeVries: "Just fine." The words were hardly spoken when Clark suddenly bejan to shudder uncontrollably. DeVries immediately placed Clark on a respirator and then injected him with the tranquilizer Valium and Dilantin, an anticonvulsant medication most commonly used to control epilepsy. During the next 2½ hours, the unconscious Clark suffered intermittent seizures, but the quivering was confined...
...dentist from Des Moines, Wash., had been making an impressive recovery. He joked with nurses, listened to tapes of music brought by his family (a favorite: Handel's Messiah sung by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir), and had even begun doing light exercises, sitting on the edge of his bed and swinging his legs for five-minute stretches...
...Atlanta," says Rob. Moments later the TV at the foot of his bed lights up with a news broadcast from Ted Turner's superstation WTBS, beamed via high-earth orbit...
With these commands, Rob can search through the necklace of satellites that rings the earth and pick up any one of 150 TV channels. He can also dial the telephone, adjust the angle of his bed, dim the lights, dictate letters, play video games and write computer programs on the Carnegie-Mellon University computer network in nearby Pittsburgh. Next January he will start taking college-level courses by satellite...