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Mark R. Brockman was halfway up the mountain with seven other hikers from the university when the accident occurred on March...
...better course would be to develop ways of preventing such chronic ailments as cardiomyopathy and coronary artery disease. "If such work is not done," wrote Dr. Lewis Thomas, chancellor of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, "we will be stuck forever with this insupportably expensive, ethically puzzling halfway technology." But preventing heart disease, as Thomas readily admits, is a long way off. Says Dr. William Friedewald, associate director of the Na tional Heart, Lung and Blood Institute: "Of course, our goal is prevention, to have no Barney Clarks in the future, but right now that's pipe-dreaming...
...other archaeological rescue of such magnitude had been attempted since UNESCO's raising of the Egyptian temple of Abu Simbel in 1966 to protect it from the floodwaters of the Aswan dam. Consultants from a variety of disciplines, from architecture to soil mechanics, concluded that halfway measures would no longer do; a major rebuilding had to be undertaken. To arrest the "stone cancer," as experts call it, the temple's entire middle section was removed, a job comparable to taking out the center of a layer cake without causing a collapse. With the help of a computer contributed...
...halfway mark, an announcement that $13,000 has been raised provokes cheers from the dancers and the small contingent of Jefferson Park kids still present...
...game's midway point, Eli right wing Sean Neely raced down the middle with the puck: Blair stayed put and Neely shot wide Five minutes later, he stead-fastly clung to the goal post to deny Yale's leading scorer. Bob Brooke, the near side shot And halfway through the final stanza, he made a sprawling save on winger George Minowada, a play both coaches talked about after the game...