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...referred to Loma Linda by a pediatrician in Barstow, Calif. The 546-bed 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...
...kickoff time, however, Orange Monday had become a white nightmare as an unusually early blizzard dumped 9 in. of snow on the city. With many of the city's snowplows still in storage, roads quickly became hazardous, and Interstate 70 was the scene of a spectacular (but not fatal) 56-car accident...
That's the problem that's doomed the Harvard squad all year, and which once again proved fatal Saturday...
...Brain is one of the sea- son's most engrossing new series. The eight hour-long shows focus mainly on human case studies illustrating the brain's functions and dysfunctions. In one episode, Choreographer Agnes DeMille is shown learning to use her body again after a near fatal brain hemorrhage. Another, called "Rhythms and Drives," introduces a Virginia woman who plunges into a crippling depression every winter. For months, she tearfully relates, her time is spent "sleeping, eating, crying." Her disorder is apparently an exaggerated version of the brain's natural response to seasonal variations in sunlight...
These convictions have not crippled the Mafia, which, as both the 1981 fatal bombing of Philadelphia Mobster Philip Testa and the recent indictments of New York mobsters for conspiracy in connection with Suffolk County garbage collections attest, is amply active. The President's Commission on Organized Crime, established last summer, estimates that the Mafia takes in up to $168 billion a year in the U.S., or more than the gross domestic products of Greece and Austria combined. Says FBI Director Webster: "There are few businesses or industries in our communities that are not affected by organized-criminal enterprises. This...