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...problems of the 1,000 graduate students are much more acute. With the exception of those from the British Commonwealth, most foreign graduate students come to Harvard with rosy expectations. Many look forward to an easy, unrestricted life, with little financial hardship. They picture the United States as a fluid yet very integrated society...
...principle is deceptively simple. Little oxygen is normally dissolved in the fluid portion of the blood, which relies on the hemoglobin in its red cells to carry oxygen, in a loosely combined form, to all the body's tissues. Dr. Boerema learned from animal experiments and his gas gangrene patients that it matters little during an operation whether the amount of oxygen carried by hemoglobin is increased: what counts is that under high pressure the watery part of the blood dissolves a considerable amount of gas. In Dr. Boerema's operations, that gas is life-saving oxygen...
...policy?" Leaders of the two minor parties, whose votes would be needed to bring down Diefenbaker's Conservatives on a vote of noconfidence, seemed to agree. Said the New Democratic Party's Tommy Douglas: "The Prime Minister said that the government's policy was flexible and fluid; it has become wily and wobbly...
...coming the other way through the Halifax Narrows that morning. The two ships went into a clumsy dance like people trying to pass on a sidewalk. When they ultimately collided, the Norwegian ship gashed the bows of the Mont Blanc and broke open some of the benzole drums. The fluid ran out over the deck and poured down into the hold. The Norwegian ship disengaged, and, as steel scraped steel, sparks ignited the benzole. The Mont Blanc blazed fire for a full 25 minutes before the explosion. The French crew abandoned ship. The Mont Blanc drifted across the harbor, nuzzled...
...family quieted down, and keeping his room full of fresh air. The patient should have his skull X-rayed to be sure that he has not fractured it in a forgotten fall. And he should have a spinal tap to detect infection or bleeding into the spinal fluid...