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...much of the tooth seems to be inert that some dental surgeons hoped that a transplant would not set off rejection reactions. They thought it might be possible to graft teeth from one person to another in much the same way as the bloodless cornea of the eye can be grafted, and for essentially the same reasons. Some dentists at last week's meeting claimed successes in person-to-person transplants that have lasted from two to four years. But they had no X rays to show that the roots were still healthy. Soon, their colleagues predicted, the crowns...
Fact is, concluded Cornell University's Dr. Stanley J. Behrman, teeth are far from immune to the processes of graft rejection. Even their enamel, he said, may touch off an immune reaction. The root is slowly whittled away by scavenger cells in the bloodstream of the tooth's new owner, and is replaced with soft tissue or new bone, which is why the crown eventually falls...
Land reform is a primary objective -but not the kind of unthinking reform that destroys large, productive farms, while leaving peasants with little except a few hardscrabble acres. Castello Branco wants to reorganize the graft-ridden state and county land-tax system, put it under federal control, and devise an equitable tax rate in proportion to size and productive capacity. Small farmers will get easier credit and more technical help. Even the country's creaky judicial system will come in for attention; today it can take seven years for a court case to come to trial. "If the measures...
...their scheduled level; because of this, Cuban industrial production was off 16%. Moreover, said Che, "we are undergoing serious tension in a number of factories because equipment is rapidly going to pieces." The only sources for parts are "cannibal" shops, which strip spares from worn-out equipment and graft them onto salvageable machines. In some cases not even cannibalism will stir the equipment back to life. Guevara complained angrily about the "absence of labor discipline." But he also admitted that there was not much to work for these days. "The people want more things," he said. "They are constantly asking...
...staterun oil company, and the country's biggest single business. It provides jobs for 30,000 people, produces 30% of Brazil's crude-oil needs, grosses almost $350 million a year. But Petrobras is also one of Brazil's sickest companies -hard hit by graft and inefficiency, and honeycombed with far-leftists. Last week, after a jolt of scandals, Petrobras was anything but untouchable...