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...grasped the significance of the opportunity. Dr. J. Hartwell Harrison removed Twin Ronald's healthy left kidney. Dr. David Hume implanted it in Richard's flank, and it took, though Richard died this year of heart disease. Of 19 other identical-twin transplants, 17 made a good start. But over the years, three patients have died of recurrent kidney disease. "So now we know," says Dr. Moore, "that the critical factor is glomerulonephritis [a form of kidney inflammation involving the small capillary loops or glomeruli], and that these people have a tendency to get the same disease again...
...wanted money. Uppermost in Alessandri's mind are his country's Andean-sized needs. Lying along South America's mountainous Pacific flank, Chile has one of the world's richest copper deposits, but, apart from minerals, few other natural resources. Copper production is at a record, but prices have dropped and the ore does not bring in as much as it used to. There is drought in the southern farm lands, and Chileans are still repairing the $400 million damage from catastrophic earthquakes 2½ years ago. Chile also shares some of the woes common...
...Bulldogs also vary their formations quite a bit. Besides the wing T and the straight T, they have occasionally run from the double wing and even the shotgun formation. At times they will flank a halfback wide or split one or both their ends...
...what he has had to do. Robert Ryan is the terrible Mister Claggart who presides so zealously at floggings: once, after counting out ten lashes while a sailor is whipped, his mouth frames a silent "eleven." Then, standing alone at the rail, he continues to strike his own flank with his rattan crop, privately counting out lash after lash in seething frustration. Ustinov, who produced and directed the film and helped write the script, has the good taste to resist turning Billy's fate into a jeremiad, or Vere's torment into a tour de force...
...Olde. Water- in canals, lagoons, fountains - is "an excellent prop"; and arcades such as those flank ing Pisa's Borgo Stretto and Bern's Spitalgasse or covering Istanbul's Grand Bazaar provide not only protection from both sun and rain but an interesting play of light and shadow...