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...beer-drinking, fossil- hunting pal named Bob Makela. They wound up one Sunday morning helping the owner of a rock shop in Bynum identify some of her fossils. Among them was a coffee can full of bones from a recent dig, including a fragment of a thumb- size femur. "You're not going to believe this," Horner remarked to Makela when he picked...
...femur and a collection of other bones back at the house were from baby duckbills. The shop owner took the two paleontologists to a ranch near Choteau where she had found the fragments, and during the next few weeks the scientists unearthed an entire nest 6 ft. in diameter, separating out the fossils with a garden hose and a window screen. To nonpaleontologists, Horner writes in his recent book, Digging Dinosaurs (Workman Publishing; $17.95), the fossils resembled "a bunch of black, sticklike rocks -- jumbled and inscrutable, the way much of modern art seems to me." But to Horner, they were...
...Schmidt began the seven-hour operation by cutting a 2 1/2-foot long incision from the middle of his patient's thigh to more than halfway below her knee. He pulled back muscles and nerves, exposed the bones and the tumor; using a surgical saw, he then severed the femur four inches above the knee and the tibia, or shinbone, six inches below it. That done, he lifted out the old joint and tumor, trimmed the carefully chosen donor joint and inserted it into the twelve-inch gap. Using a metal rod and plate, the surgeon secured the new joint...
...uneveness in quality. Under the DRG system, hospitals of similar types in areas of similar economic structure are paid a "flat rate" for care of patients with specific diagnoses. Each patient is made to fit into one of 467 DRG categories (for example, DRG 235 is "Fracture of the Femur"), and the hospital will be paid only a certain fixed fee for the care of that patient if the federal government is picking up the bill...
...have intimidated forwards across the ECAC, suffered a severe knee injury in the first game of the Festival, when an opposing player fell on him in the corner. Four days later, back in Cambridge, Dr. Arthur Boland operated on his knee. Pawloski tore the knee ligaments out of his femur--but because the ligaments themselves were undamaged, the operation entailed re-attaching the ligaments to the bone...