Word: dead
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Infants in need of organ transplants greatly outnumber donors, but anencephalics have normally not been used. Reason: their organs have deteriorated too much by the time they are legally brain dead. But shortly after Baby Gabriel was born two weeks ago, Dr. Tim Frewen, head of pediatric intensive care at Children's Hospital in London, Ont., had her put on a life- support system to keep her organs healthy. Two days later, a test of her ability to breathe on her own was negative; three doctors, concluding all brain activity had ceased, declared Gabriel legally dead. Still on the life...
Built in the 1960s, the A-7 Corsair fighter-bomber has been outmoded by more advanced planes such as the F-16. At Nevada's Nellis Air Force Base, where a squadron of A-7s is located, pilots say the plane is a "dead stick without power" -- meaning that without engine thrust, the jet cannot easily be guided...
...chapter in Huckleberry Finn. The tale is perhaps too completely black; it evokes throughout a strange mixture of gut-laughter and gut-fear. One thing for sure: having read it, you won't think the same of Huckleberry Finn, or its avuncular author, again. Not for abjurers of dead baby jokes...
American rules, Ms. Kayden explained, are akin to the rules of backyard croquet. When one ball is hit by another, it is "dead" and can't be hit again until the attacker goes through a wicket. Under international rules, balls are always open to attack...
...mingle with such erudite, dead Harvard grads as Buckminster Fuller, Oliver Wendall Holmes, and Henry Cabot Lodge. Mt. Auburn is also home to refined spirits such as Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of the Church of Christian Science, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the poet, and Winslow Homer, the artist...