Word: dead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...another human heart could be found--a direct violation of federal rules. There was no time, Copeland later said, to seek permission from the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates the use of medical devices: "If we had asked them to make a decision, the patient would have been dead...
...hours ahead of the Utah team. By then, Creighton had been on the heart-lung machine for nearly six hours. Says Vaughn, the choice was clear: "Either we try the artificial heart or we turn off the machine and tell Creighton's mother that her son is dead." After three hours of surgery, the pump was in place...
...lighting firecrackers; the sparrows were frightened from their roosts and not allowed to realight. Recalls Chinese Ornithologist Tao Yaokuang, who was forced to take part in the program: "The idea was to harass them so they would be on their wings the whole day till they literally dropped dead." Sparrows were not the only birds to perish in the melee. Cranes, ibis and eagles, among others, were driven to near extinction by reckless pesticide spraying, pollution and the destruction of forests. Even today the woods around Peking remain eerily silent...
...BATTLE moves to Dunster House, where Neil McAliley '87 says he plans to go back to his House Committee with a move to ban "the production of chemical and biological weapons." The typically better-dead-than-red committee there scoffed the last time he came around with a nuclear-free plebiscite. But McAliley thinks the hoopla surrounding the Nuclear Free Adams House referendum may help him with his latest cause...
...Cabot House, the big dead fish apparently has lots of significance. Cabot House gets in same from the family of Thomas D. Cabot '19, and according to Cabot Master's Assistant Susan Livingston, the House cost of arms boasts three dead fish, a variation on the Cabot family seal...