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...1880s that man can get along, after a fashion, with only a remnant of his stomach. German-born Surgeon Theodor Billroth then decided it was possible to cut out the lower stomach and pylorus and join what was left of the stomach to the duodenum (see top diagram). After this "subtotal gastrectomy," or "Billroth I," came a still more daring invention, "hemigastrectomy," or "Billroth II": cutting out about half of the stomach and hitching up what was left to the small bowel, leaving the duodenum dead-ended and dangling (second diagram...
...afflicted a dozen descendants of Queen Victoria, results from a defect in a recessive gene carried on the x (female) chromosome. If a hemophilic man marries a normal woman, all their sons are normal but all their daughters are carriers. If a carrier woman marries a normal man (see diagram), each son has a fifty-fifty chance of being a victim and each daughter has a fifty-fifty chance of being a carrier. No one can predict whether a child will be affected, because a sort of genetic lottery decides which of the mother's chromosomes the child inherits...
...Congrès to try to reach agreement on Common Market farm policies and prices by year's end-or face the threat of Charles de Gaulle to break up the Market. So intricate did their discussions become that the question was who needed the most blackboards to diagram his proposals. At week's end delegates seemed satisfied that important progress had been made. Said Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak gamely: "There will be no breakup of the Common Market...
...story is not only for light jugglery. The publishers invoke the names of Mary McCarthy and Simone de Beauvoir to suggest the quality of Mrs. Lessing's talents, but she lacks the argumentativeness of either intellectual lady. She does not argue: she points. Only a theorem or a diagram could be as bare-or as indestructible-as her strongly jointed fictional essays...
Earthbound doctors, noting its blue glass panels, have dubbed it "the cyanotic silo." Arranged in a basically circular pattern (see diagram), the ground floor is used for a blood bank. The second floor is for heart surgery, but the actual operating rooms occupy only two spaces shaped like generous slices of a pie. The third floor has masses of equipment for recording the research doctors' data, and glass observation domes for looking down into the heart operating rooms...