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Still, it is often impossible to retrieve a patient's blood, particularly in trauma cases in which the victim of a shooting or highway accident has lost an enormous amount at the scene. Since blood is not always readily available in these circumstances, researchers are seeking a synthetic hemoglobin for emergency...
...waitresses and barmaids as some of them still are. He shares Abbey's employment history, his age more or less (late middle), his marrying habit (Abbey's present wife is his fifth) and his sour gallantry. His position on beer-can tossing is the master's: the highway is an abomination, and thus the litter that sullies it is a blow for truth and beauty...
...wife has left him for the usual good reasons, he and his job at the Tucson welfare office are irreconcilable, his charge-card credit has seized up, his old dog is fatally ill, and he has a gut ache that sounds bad. In this woeful condition he hits the highway, heading home to his older brother Will, who still tends the family farm in West Virginia...
...such vehicular mayhem justified? Many police and some legal experts argue that high-speed chases help maintain respect for the law. Says Sergeant Jim Mattos, spokesman for the California Highway Patrol: "As soon as you develop a policy of no chases, then the only people who are going to stop are the honest ones." Moreover, supporters insist, many chases end in the capture and arrest of serious criminals. Asks Donald Schroeder, adjunct professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan: "If it were the Son of Sam in the car that you were chasing, would...
Bush also spoke at the California Highway Patrol Academy in Sacramento and received endorsements from the California Correctional Peace Officers Association and the International Association of Correctional Officers...