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...dying heart was an I ugly yellowish color when Dr. William DeVries finally cut it loose, tore it out of the Mercurochrome-stained chest cavity, and put it to one side. For the next three hours, while a nearby heart-lung bypass machine kept the unconscious patient alive?and while a tape in the background eerily played Mendelssohn and Vivaldi?DeVries' sure hands carefully stitched into place a grapefruit-size gadget made of aluminum and polyurethane. At 12:50 p.m. last Monday, the Jarvik-7 artificial heart newly sewn inside William J. Schroeder began beating steadily, 70 beats...
...eliminating "honors-only" majors. If the Faculty were to strengthen the College's honors requirements, either more students in honors-only concentrations would be forced to graduate outside their major or, through inflation of course and thesis grades, those who study in these elite curricula would effectively get to bypass the tougher requirements...
...saffron robes of a holy man, a role he played in many of his 300 films, Actor-Turned-Politician N.T. Rama Rao, 61, was mobbed by reporters and supporters when he arrived last week in New Delhi, India's capital. Though still recuperating from a recent heart bypass operation, Rama Rao had made the two-hour flight from his home state of Andhra Pradesh to protest his sudden ouster a few days earlier as chief minister, the state's top elected official. Rama Rao had been swept into that office only last year, when his Telugu Desam party...
...violent clashes shattered Marcos' attempt to establish an atmosphere of calm. In a conciliatory speech to the assembly, Marcos promised that martial law would not be reintroduced. Under Amendment Six to the Constitution, the President can bypass the assembly in making crucial decisions during a state of national emergency. The President pointedly warned opposition assemblymen that the country faced a threat of armed insurrection from the outlawed Communist New People's Army. For weeks, defense forces have been waging widely publicized raids on N.P.A. strongholds in the countryside, partly to create public support for the government; Marcos...
...Haitians, much less the old black hogs. Once the island is declared free of disease, the Haitian government, aided by a $27 million Inter-American Development Bank loan, will restock the island pig population, establishing breeding and slaughtering facilities. The fear, however, is that this ambitious commercial plan will bypass the peasant...