Word: fasted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young biology professor in 1960, Donald Kennedy left a tenured job at Syracuse University for an untenured one at Stanford. "A lot of people thought I was crazy," he recalls. But at the hot, fast-evolving Palo Alto institution, he explains, "you got the sense that anything was possible." Last week in the elegant corner office of University President Donald Kennedy, it seemed that anything had indeed been possible, and would continue to be so. "I love it," exults Kennedy, 56, about the sprawling campus and his action-packed position. "I grew up here scientifically...
...patient's arteries and into his left ventricle, the main pumping chamber of the heart. The stainless-steel pump, driven by a slender cable linked to a motor outside the body, took on the work of the ailing ventricle. Spinning 25,000 times a minute -- about four times as fast as a sports-car engine -- the pump drew a steady stream of blood out of the chamber and into the aorta, the main vessel carrying blood to the body. Afterward, Frazier exulted, "This is really an astonishing device...
...retells it in a cliche-strewn prose, participles adangle, that rarely rises above a 5. Still, readers who can endure the rhetorical posturing -- New York police, at one point, become the "expected forces of the military- industrial complex" -- should find his account of the Chicago convention and trial fast paced and diverting. There is also a moving, elegiac coda in which Hayden revisits Mississippi with his ex-wife Casey and tours Port Huron, Mich., in search of the spot where the SDS was born...
...number-four singles match, Harvard Co-Captain Cyndy Austrian lost a close first set to Alison Fleming. Austrian started off fast, taking a 2-1 in the first...
...Indians, as their nickname suggests, are fast. Taking this into account, the Crimson scrimmaged against the Harvard men's JV team Monday...