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...asked: "Can you nod your head?" Edna nodded. Dr. Glenn lifted a pair of shears and snipped out the rib. Then he cut deeper, through the layers of the heart sac, until the pulsing organ itself was laid bare. He plunged his gloved finger into it and wiggled his fingertip, so that it tore some of the scar tissue and enlarged the opening in the mitral valve in order to let more blood flow from the left auricle to the left ventricle. Throughout the delicate operation, Edna was conscious. As the incision was being sewed up again, Dr. Artusio told...
...years later the rest of the refectory was rebuilt, and the sandbags removed. But the mural was obscured by a newly formed crust of white mold, brought on by long contact with the rain-dampened sandbags. A fingertip touch would dent the pasty surface, and there seemed no way of removing the mold without flaking off the picture as well. The world had seen the last, apparently, of the Last Supper...
...Robert Smithdas who had gone through St. John's University in Brooklyn by listening through his hands. Like Smithdas, Richard found companions who could help him. They went with him to lectures, and by using his hand as a sort of typewriter -a knuckle for one letter, a fingertip for another-they read him everything he could not find in Braille. Richard not only took his full load of courses, he also became one of the busiest men in town...
Simple Sticker. Chrysler Corp. announced a new industrial cement that needs only fingertip pressure to stick two surfaces together, but is strong enough after hardening to withstand pressures up to 10,000 Ibs. per square inch. Replacing adhesives that are applied with heavy pressure or heat, the cement is used by Chrysler to join brake linings to shoes...
...measure how much nicotine cuts down circulation in the hands and feet, Dr. Morris T. Friedell of Chicago's Cook County Hospital made 100 volunteers slightly radioactive and put a radiation counter at their fingertips. Of the 79 who had a reaction after smoking a test cigarette, the women showed almost twice as great a change in fingertip blood flow as the men. But, surprisingly, some of the women showed increased blood flow. Dr. Friedell's conclusions: filtering cigarettes is a good idea, and women need the filtering more than...