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...Gall-bladder removals, normally twelve days, have been cut to 8.4 days...
...portraying Charlie as the still life of the party. Made on B-picture budgets, the Chan films show their age with simple-minded mysteries solvable in the second reel by any post-Bond youngster of eight. They also rely heavily on antique comic relief as subtle as a pig bladder. Charlie's No. 1 and No. 2 sons incessantly glue up the clues, and a procession of Negro buffoons (Mantan Moreland, Stepin Fetchit, Willie Best) pop their eyes at every corpse. But bad as the films were, they were also an undergraduate school through which passed some able...
First, Surgeon Norman E. Shum-way's team concluded that Kasperak's life was threatened by liver and pile-duct trouble, for which they must operate. They found that Kasperak's main bile duct had been blocked by internal bleeding. They removed the gall bladder and inserted a tube to keep the duct open, and thus keep bile flowing to the small bowel, and to permit drainage if necessary...
Died. Shigeru Yoshida, 89, Premier of Japan in the rebuilding years from 1946 to 1954; of complications following a gall-bladder infection; in Oiso, Japan. "Criticism of Americans is a right accorded even to Americans," Yoshida once wrote. "But in the enumeration of their faults we cannot include their occupation of Japan." Stubby, acerbic and continually puffing cigars, he firmly steered his nation from the rubble of war through the U.S. occupation toward its emergence as a modern industrial democratic state. All along the way, he fended off attacks from both the Communist left and jingoist right...
...cold if they drifted farther up in the clouds, or extreme heat if they descended too far toward the surface, Morowitz and Sagan speculate that they must be regulated to hover at an essentially fixed altitude. Thus, the organisms could well take the form of a gasbag or float bladder containing hydrogen gas-which the organism itself could produce by decomposing water...