Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...urged the council to require the company to have the soil tested by the state before construction can begin...
...life at other colleges, but were so convinced of Harvard's merits that they were willing to give up everything they worked for at their previous schools to be here. Since Harvard does admit transfers, the University must devote more time and energy to making sure that transfer students begin their Harvard years feeling welcome...
...into a surgical incision, the microscopic beads may block pain for a week, possibly reducing or even eliminating the need for opiates. The hope is that they will enable patients to recover sooner. The beads are being tried on patients overseas, and Berde expects testing in the U.S. to begin soon...
Although Batista is best known for his heart-trimming procedure, he is taking his beliefs about size to other areas as well. Eisenmenger syndrome is a disease caused by a septal defect, or hole in the heart. As the condition progresses, fresh and deoxygenated blood begin to mix, with the latter seeping through to the body, causing pressure to build in the lungs and stretching the lung tissue. In the U.S., the defect is usually closed up right away, but in the developing world children often grow up with the hole. Until now, the solution was a heart/lung transplant, which...
...patient can begin the drastic treatment that will destroy bone marrow unless it is certain that the marrow can be replaced. Some have autologous transplants, in which their own marrow is harvested and returned to them later; others must search for allogeneic transplants from donors--usually relatives. But even close relatives do not always have compatible marrow. In recent years about two-thirds of all patients needing allogeneic transplants have sought unrelated donors...