Word: corde
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Chancellor, to mid-April 1945, just two weeks before his death and the fall of the Third Reich. Each volume contains from 75 to 100 pages, written in black ink, many bearing Hitler's signature at the bottom. Upon completion, each diary was wrapped with a thin red cord and sealed with a red wax imprint of the swastika...
WHILE DOING research surgery on a rat recently, I had the unsettling experience of seeing the rat begin to move its rear leg. This reaction is common to animals under anaesthetic: it results from reflexes at the level of the spinal cord rather than conscious awareness of pain. I knew I had used the proper dose of anaesthetic, but I was disturbed nonetheless. I couldn't help imagining what it would be like to experience such surgery without anaesthesia...
...very easy, really. If every once in a while some poor kid gets the umbilical cord wrapped around its neck and can't breathe for a few minutes, HCA or whoever owns the hospital just raises its rates and shoots off $119 million to the unfortunate parents. And what happened to Andrea Ferris was of course an accident, probably as upsetting to the doctor who performed the operation as to the Ferrises themselves (at least one would hope...
...electrician called at my house at eight in the morning and as soon as the door was open, he said: "You have to change the electric iron's cord." Immediately realizing that he had come to the wrong door, he apologized and left. Hours later, my wife connected the iron, and the cord caught fire. There is no need to go on. It is enough to read the papers, and open one's eyes, in order to feel willing to shout along with the French college students: "Power to the imagination!" -Gabriel Garcia Márquez, commenting...
...machine one hundred years ago." Unlike CAT and other forms of X ray, NMR can "see" with clarity through the thickest of bones. Thus, without painful injections of contrast material, it can reveal damage from a stroke buried deep beneath the skull, find tiny spinal cord injuries, and make it possible to differentiate the gray and white matter of the brain. "For the soft tissue of the body," says Worthington, "NMR comes close to being the perfect imaging technique...