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Soudavar, who has experience in investment banking, said his work in the financial world has been "another form of education," enabling him to observe and analyze how corporations function-and learn the value of money...
...spartan at best. There is little modern monitoring equipment at his Curitiba hospital. Instead, his technicians are instructed to look for three things: the patient's feet should be pink, to demonstrate adequate blood pressure; there should be urine output, to indicate that the patient has not lost kidney function; and the surgical drain should be clear, to show no internal bleeding. Surgeons depend on large windows in the operating room to provide adequate light for operations...
...skull, could be reached only by cutting through the entire brain, which left patients devastated. As one of the pioneers of skull-base surgery, Black now removes clival chordomas by going up through the nasal passage, bypassing the brain entirely. His patients go home without any loss of function (known to doctors as a "deficit...
...revolving-door leadership, the government appointed Joel Mendes Renno, 59, to the top job in 1992 and has let him stay the course. An engineer and former adviser to the government's Ministry of Mines and Energy, he is known as an efficient manager who allows department heads to function without interference...
Losick said that Ptashne's principal contribution to the field of molecular biology was the discovery of the principles under which "regulatory molecules" controlling the function of genes can be applied to eukaryotic, or multi-celled organisms...