Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...13th year of playing the sport, Biotti considers his greatest strength "my love for the game. I love to skate--it's in my blood," he says...
...being summoned to speak with Upton. They point to an incident last month in which outspoken activist Jamin B. Raskin '83 told The Crimson that the "administration rounded up the usual suspects" in the Lowell House investigation, and that there "were headhunters on the Ad Board who smelled blood this time." Upton immediately called him in to discuss the matter...
...Gaidosh received the familiar Jarvik-7, Mandia's surgery marked the debut of the Penn State heart, developed by Surgeon William Pierce of the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. It has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for temporary use only and is designed to overcome the blood-clotting problems that have plagued Jarvik-7 recipients. Dallara, meanwhile, was connected to a pair of external pumps called ventricular assist devices, which are ordinarily used singly to help heart patients recover after surgery. When used in pairs, VADs can take over the work of both the left...
...group acknowledged that it would be premature to draw any firm conclusions about cyclosporine. But they argued that it was "ethically necessary" to share what could be an important finding. They reported that the drug had produced a dramatic rise in the number of T-4 cells--specialized white blood cells essential to the immune system--in both of the test patients. (An abnormally low level of these cells is a hallmark of AIDS.) One of the patients, a 38-year-old man described as having been "near death" before treatment, had a hundredfold increase in his T-4 level...
...ritual seems "ridiculous" now, the witness acknowledged, but it was deadly serious when he joined the Mafia 37 years ago in Palermo, Sicily. One of the four men conducting the ceremony pricked the initiate's finger and rubbed the blood on the picture of a saint. The picture was then set afire. The act meant that "if I should betray the organization, my flesh would burn like this saint," Tommaso Buscetta told fascinated spectators in a jammed federal courtroom in New York City last week. The stocky mobster then coolly proceeded to betray his blood brothers in a most dramatic...