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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Eight Ball: Don't count...
...depends what people are looking for," he said, citing the economics survey as an example. The registrar's office does not count Social Analysis 10 as one class enrolling 920 students because it meets mostly in section, although the course's lectures pack Sanders Theatre...
What keeps Batista going is not fancy equipment but his insatiable desire to find a better way of doing things. He trained in the U.S. and Canada for 12 years, but he discovered on his return to Brazil that he could not count on the state-of-the-art technology he had grown used to. So he had to make do with the available resources. "Established systems don't allow for any creativity," he says. "Here I can ask questions and find new answers. I love challenges." He fills his office walls with inspirational sayings like "He who tries...
Breathing on a ventilator, and without a drop of transfused blood flowing in his veins, Jackson gradually began to respond to the treatment. Within four days his blood count had risen significantly. Soon after, he was shaking his head in disbelief and telling his doctors, "If it wasn't for this, I wouldn't be here." It was around then that the first hospital called to ask whether Jackson was dead. With undisguised satisfaction, Shander told them, "He's not only not dead, but he's well and ready for discharge, and he'll soon be about his usual business...
...come up with a panoply of methods and machinery, some of them known for decades but refined and repackaged to fit today's needs and concerns. While bloodless techniques vary from hospital to hospital, they invariably begin with medicinal and nutritional approaches to increase a patient's blood count before surgery. Efforts are made to guard against unnecessary blood loss from tests, and standard blood drawings are either reduced or eliminated altogether. And since an intensive-care patient during an average stay must part with close to a liter of blood for testing--much of it unused and thrown...