Word: ducting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sixth grades to the District of Columbia morgue and pulled back the sheets on the bodies to show the children the ultimate product of violence and drugs. On one visit, the children viewed a corpse riddled with 11 bullet holes. The victim's mouth had been sealed with duct tape. One of the children in the group recognized the body as someone from the neighborhood...
...right. Nothing did. From October on, duct tape held up my bathroom windowpane. I realize now that it was my fault, in part. The system here doesn't accommodate you, it ignores you. I shouldn't have taken a nod for an answer. I should have made life difficult for the Dunster House superintendent until somebody fixed my windowpane...
...tower. The interior walls are 29-ft.- high, 6-in.-thick ice sheets, making a perfectly Scandinavian space -- frigid, shipshape, elegant and grave, a well-engineered mini-fjord. On into the 12-ft.-wide tube, which contains the exhibition space. Outside, the tube resembles a giant clothes-dryer ventilation duct and sits in a pool atop a black plinth -- and inside the plinth, in turn, is an aquavit-and-herring restaurant...
...surgeons have learned how to remove gall bladders laparoscopically. "That may be too quick," acknowledges Dr. Nathaniel Soper, a general surgeon at Washington University in St. Louis, since laparoscopic surgery takes considerable practice. Currently, for . instance, laparoscopic gall-bladder removal appears to carry a slightly elevated risk of bile-duct injury, but the injuries seem to be concentrated in the first operations a surgeon performs. For this reason, medical societies have begun drawing up training standards that direct novices to practice on animals first and then to conduct their first operations under an expert...