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Basically, the courses are the three Rs geared to Samoan culture, though math, history and science are taught on a secondary level. Much time is spent on introducing the concept of change. "It may seem simple," says Vernon Bronson, research and development director of the National Association of Educational Broadcasters, which helped to set up the new system, "but to the tropical Samoan, such concepts as change in season in temperate climates are enormously confusing." Also difficult is teaching world history to isolated students who may not even see a stranger all year...
...almost certainly brass-all he could do was let the eye heal a little and hope to get at the object later. But there was grave danger that eye fluids would react with the metal and compel removal of the eye. Then Dr. Passmore remembered reading that Dr. Nathaniel Bronson II had begun work in New York on an ultrasound probe to locate foreign bodies in the eye within a millimeter. (X rays have an error range of three to four millimeters, which is considered to be too wide for an eye surgeon...
...phone call brought the happy news that Dr. Bronson's gadget was ready for its first trial on a human patient. The engineering part of the job had been done by Philadelphia's Smith Kline Instrument Co.; Surgeon Bronson had already tried their Ekoline-20 ultrasonic probe successfully in the eyes of cats and in surgically removed human eyes. Dr. Bronson rushed to Washington to join Dr. Passmore in the precedent-making operation...
Pulses & Echoes. With Jimmy anesthetized, Dr. Passmore first rolled the left eyeball over in its socket and applied heat, to "glue" the retina in place so that it would not become detached during surgical manipulation. With an ultrasound device that worked from outside the eyeball, Dr. Bronson was able to get a rough idea where the object was, and Dr. Passmore proceeded to remove the useless, damaged lens from Jimmy's eye. Then Dr. Bronson took up the ultimate in delicate, ultrasound probes, smaller and finer than any dentist's drill. Its tip, about as thick...
...Bronson pushed the probe into the gelatinous "vitreous body" that fills most of the eyeball and searched. When the oscilloscope showed that he was within a millimeter of the foreign body, Dr. Bronson closed the minuscule forceps attached to the probe. His aim was perfect. The forceps grasped the object, and Dr. Bronson carefully extracted a sliver of brass, ¼-inch long and 3/16-inch wide. Though the whole operation on Jimmy's eye took an hour and a half, the actual location of the sliver and its removal took only 39 seconds...