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...have also shown them how to see with sound. Ultrasonic beams bounced through a patient can spell out a fuzzy picture of all they encounter. Operations can now be carried out in an environment that is virtually germfree. The new device may be as comparatively simple as a heart cart that contains everything from a cardiac pacemaker to a supply of oxygen, and can, in effect, rush the entire equipment of a hospital emergency room directly to a heart patient's bedside. Or it may be as vastly complex as the proton gun currently being used by Harvard Neurosurgeons...
...history and men betray him. His cart breaks down, so he rides bareback to his fate. He cannot leave himself behind; the horse "looks like an old Jew," and as he canters, ambles, trots and staggers across the black plain, Yakov can only be seen as a Jewish Quixote. It could also be said of his dream of "good fortune and a comfortable house," in the conditions of the Ukraine of that day, that nothing could be more hopelessly quixotic. He trades his Rosinante for a ferry ride and enters the holy city of Kiev. As a final renunciation...
Rice for Teacher. Civilservants appear at the office only long enough to sign in, spend most of the day doing other jobs, such as driving taxis or peddling their influence. Clerks and secretaries cart away office supplies to sell on the black market. Chauffeurs and bus drivers put in extra hours hauling passengers for themselves, pick up extra pocket money by siphoning gasoline from their tanks and selling it. Soldiers set up roadblocks to exact a few rupiahs from every passing vehicle. Schools are supposedly free, but teachers expect donations of money or rice from their students. At ports, longshoremen...
...mentioned each other's names-and for good reason. "There's feeling," notes one G.O.P. chieftain, "that the first guy who throws a real mud ball will get ten back in his face from party rank-and-file members who just don't want the apple cart upset...
...when the ball struck Walsh, said the judge, he was sitting in a golf cart 20 ft. to Sellers' rear - a place of supposedly perfect safety. As a result, Walsh cannot be said to have "voluntarily assumed the risk" of being partly blinded. Ruled the judge: Duffer-Defendant Sellers must stand trial...