Word: blood
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Biden has been seen neither on TV nor in the Senate. Much of the time he has spent in Washington's Walter Reed Army Medical Center. He checked in on Feb. 12 so doctors could correct an aneurysm near his brain. He returned a month later with a blood clot. Last week Biden was back, again because of an aneurysm. In intensive care after surgery, he was said to be doing well. He is expected to return to duty in the near future...
...Bonn parliamentary subcommittee and described their lives as regimes of terror. Lotti Packmor, 55, who left the colony with her husband in 1985 and now lives in Canada, said she had seen young boys given injections in their testicles and described Schafer as having beaten a young girl until "blood spurted from her nose." Added Georg Packmor: "No one dares even to think of escaping." A colony spokesman denied the charges and said that such alleged witnesses were mentally ill, alcoholics, adulterers and drug addicts...
WHITE MISCHIEF. The African sun sets British blue blood sizzling in a steamy adaptation of James Fox's chronicle of decadence and murder in the Kenyan colony...
...heart. The stainless-steel pump, driven by a slender cable linked to a motor outside the body, took on the work of the ailing ventricle. Spinning 25,000 times a minute -- about four times as fast as a sports-car engine -- the pump drew a steady stream of blood out of the chamber and into the aorta, the main vessel carrying blood to the body. Afterward, Frazier exulted, "This is really an astonishing device...
...pump's inventor, Richard Wampler, 39, a California physician, took his inspiration from pumps he saw in deep wells ten years ago in Egypt. The pump's spinning motion and the resulting continuous flow of blood from the heart represent a departure from the natural pulsating action that most other devices try to mimic. Some researchers at first feared that the whirling blades would destroy blood cells and that the body would be unable to tolerate the nonpulsating blood flow. So far, the problem has not materialized. Another potential drawback: small as the pump is, it may be too large...