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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...British Monarchy serves more as fodder for gossip columnists than anything else. Colleges and universities across this country attract students and professors who Harvard might otherwise retaining, and any reverence remaining for Harvard is counterbalanced by an equal dose of disdain...
...people, most of them fire fighters and plantworkers, were hospitalized after exposure to estimated levels of radiation that ranged from 100 rads to more than 800 rads. In normal circumstances a person is exposed to about one-tenth of a rad per year. "Those in the lower-dose range will have modest and reversible damage," Gale says. Many of the 299 fell into this category. But 35 patients were exposed to doses exceeding 800 rads and were listed in "grave condition." Nineteen of them were chosen either for transplants of bone marrow from donors or for more experimental transplants...
...doctors' toughest job was screening out those victims who might recover without the risky operation as well as those too ill to benefit. Of the patients selected for transplants, some had received such a heavy dose of radiation that their white blood cells, which are needed to match tissues, had already been destroyed. That forced the doctors to use the liver tissue from fetuses, which is also a source of blood cells and is less likely to be rejected In future nuclear accidents, Gale suggested, blood samples should be taken from all victims within 48 hours so that they will...
...AIDS virus, they face additional challenges. In order for the drugs to work patients will probably have to take a lot of them over a long period of time. Therefore researchers have to worry whether the chemicals could harm the body over the longterm. "We must imagine lifelong high dose therapy to keep the virus continually suppressed. We have to think about what those chemicals will do to the liver and kidneys," Haseltine says...
...Davis) is careful to point out at the end of the play, no moral. It's good; it's scurillous; it's even sacrilegious. As the players tell the audience during the show's denouement--if you could call it that--the play is no more than "a healthy dose of sex and violence--in church, no less...