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...known as dialysate. The blood's impurities (but not the blood cells or vital proteins) pass into the bath through minute porosities in the cellulose, and then go down the drain. Some models require a pump to circulate and renew the bath water, while others rely on gravity or faucet pressure. Some depend on arterial pressure to get the blood through the machine and back into the patient; some use a pump...
...Whisperers. Rattling around her scruffy flat, a penurious, retired domestic (Dame Edith Evans) lives a life of utter solitude in an atmosphere where the dripping of a faucet is a dramatic event. Her only companions are "the whisperers," unheard voices who speak in her cobwebbed brain, alternately providing her with companionship and terror. In the gritty industrial town in which she lives, time settles like the soot as she goes about her monotonous routine-a visit to the library to warm her feet on a radiator pipe; a stop at the police station to record the most recent threat...
...Freedom City, with its own police force, transportation and school systems. "I am obsessed with the idea of freedom, of self-determination," Karenga said at a rally during the Watts Festival, "and I'd rather use a pump in Freedom City that we controlled than to turn on a faucet in a city where we are daily brutalized and have no power...
Water from the Faucet. Two afternoons each week, a Boston lawyer leaves his office early and goes home to bed. His rolled-up left sleeve discloses two plastic tubes permanently implanted in his forearm, one set in a vein, the other in an artery. Their outside ends are connected so that blood flows freely through them. A physician from Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital takes the lawyer's blood pressure. In his bedroom, near the bathroom, is a waist-high tank of stainless steel equipped with an electric motor and pump, an array of tubes...
...that saw him carry 28 times for 55 yards, punt nine times, throw a pass, catch two, and return two punts and a kickoff. It was a courageous performance, but a futile one against a Harvard line that turned off Penn's running attack like a faucet. Molloy was thrown for losses half a dozen times...