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...facility is one of more than 60 U.S. hospitals operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church and has a fine reputation in pediatric heart surgery. Fae was suffering from hypoplastic left-heart syndrome, a fatal condition said to affect one in 12,000 newborns. In children with this defect, the left side of the heart, including its main pumping chamber, the left ventricle, and the aorta, is seriously underdeveloped. In Fae's case, doc tors said, the left side of the organ was virtually nonexistent...
...Leonard Bailey, 41, the pediatric cardiac surgeon who treated Fae, over the years had seen dozens of infants with this defect die, generally within two weeks of birth. While a transplant from a human donor could theoretically be used to help such babies, Bailey was discouraged by the drastic shortage of infant hearts. Seven years ago he began investigating the possibility of using hearts from other species, or xenografts. He performed more than 150 transplants in sheep, goats and baboons, many of them between species. Last December, after what Bailey called "months of agonizing," the Loma Linda institutional review board...
Well aware that a less publicized but more permanent funeral awaits him in the Soviet Union once he heads over the dossier, Kimberly decides to defect in England--this time as Serge Kosminsky, commercial attache, Quickly slipping out of the hands of the British Foreign Office, Kimberly goes on to search for the document. Enter Admiral Scaithe, played by Laurence Oliver, Kimberly's successor in British intelligence and the man assigned to track down the supposed defector. Having watched Kimberly's supposed funeral on televison, Scaithe does not immediately suspect that his former colleague and friend is back in town...
...first Brandeis goal followed a long throw-in into the packed Crimson penalty area, which then ricocheted off a forest of legs pull Crimson keeper Matt Ginsburg. The Judge took advantage of a mixup in the Harvard defect to add the second goal...
Konstantin U. Chernenko: What? Did Dobrynin finally defect...