Word: blooded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...bathroom sink. Your bed is a mat on the floor. One of your fellow hostages tries to escape, and the guards beat him senseless. Another tries to commit suicide. One day you too reach the edge of your sanity. You begin furiously pounding your head against a wall. Blood oozes from your scalp and smears down your face...
...isolation. In December he gets a new roommate, French diplomat Marcel Fontaine (kidnaped March 22, 1985). Anderson is denied permission to send out a videotaped Christmas message to his family. The frustration becomes unbearable, and one day he walks over to a wall and beats his head against it. Blood seeps from Anderson's scalp. "Terry!" Fontaine pleads. "Think of your family...
...slippery scientific and ethical ground. As any biologist will testify, genetic variety is the spice of life, a necessary ingredient to the survival of a species. Genes that are detrimental under certain conditions may turn out to have hidden benefits. Sickle-cell anemia, for example, is a debilitating blood disease suffered by people of African descent who have two copies of an abnormal gene. A person who has only one copy of the gene, however, will not be stricken with anemia and will in fact have an unusual resistance to malaria. That is why the gene remains common in African...
When people have a heart attack today, they are likely to be given powerful drugs to dissolve the clots that block the flow of blood to the cardiac muscle. But the drugs are generally used only to buy time until invasive procedures can be performed. These include angiography, the injection of a material into the coronary arteries to identify by X ray the 1 patient in 6 apt to have another attack; and balloon angioplasty, the threading into a blocked artery of a catheter with a tiny balloon on the end that presses plaque against the artery wall and widens...
...known as TIMI II (for thrombolysis in myocardial infarction phase II trial), involved 3,262 patients who had suffered apparent heart attacks. Within four hours of their attacks, all patients received a powerful clot dissolver, known as TPA (tissue plasminogen activator), along with heparin and aspirin to inhibit blood coagulation. Of the 1,636 patients in the invasive-strategy group, 928 underwent angiography and angioplasty within 18 to 48 hours after their attacks...