Word: branche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dangerous Location. But in the Circle of Willis (named for English Anatomist Thomas Willis, who described it in 1664), surgery is tricky. Into the circle, like highways converging into a cloverleaf, the four ascending arteries pour the brain's blood supply, and from the circle branch off the principal feeder lines from which oxygen is extracted for the brain's ceaseless activity. Located inside the skull about the eye-and-ear level, the Circle of Willis is in too dangerous a place for surgeons to cut into its vessels. Yet the different segments of the circle...
...kind of malign predestination. Some people are candidates for certain types of strokes as a result of what happened-or didn't happen-before they were born. The human fetus goes through a phase in which the internal carotid artery on each side feeds into three branch arteries and supplies most of the blood to its hemisphere of the brain...
Before birth these vessels are supposed to rearrange their connections so that the internal carotid supplies only two main branches. But, said Dr. Kirgis, about 14% of all brains studied at autopsy show the internal carotid still feeding three branch arteries on one side of the brain, and in a few cases this is true on both sides. A hemorrhage or, more common, a clot in the internal carotid of such people is apt to do far more damage than in people of normal arterial development, because there is a greater bottleneck for blood supply to essential areas...
...Allstate's Chicago branch, opened with an all-out advertising barrage last spring, was also ordered closed last week for operating without a city license. The firm has no connection with Allstate Insurance, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Sears, Roebuck...
...Mecca. In 1956 came Morocco's independence. Determined to propel his nation into the 20th century, King Mohammed slashed Karaouine's religious studies, introduced math, physics, chemistry and foreign languages. In 1957 he jolted traditionalists by setting up a female branch at Karaouine, where the enrollment (6,325) now includes 1,197 women. Soon will come another big revolution: 3,000 cramped boarders will move to airy dormitories on the new campus outside Fez, which will boast 70 modern classrooms and laboratories and such un heard of niceties as a laundry, athletic field, infirmary and dining halls...