Word: inners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mankato State College, were dropped off on the steps of the Massachusetts Statehouse early Monday morning. They were equipped with $2 apiece and their Social Security cards. With that alone, they were supposed to live for a week to learn how derelicts and impoverished immigrants in the inner city manage to survive. "This is the harshest type of experience a person can go through in the city, and that's exactly why I assigned it to them," explains H. Roger Smith, associate professor of urban studies at Mankato, and the creator of the course. Its title: Project Plunge...
...large table that used to be a tree stump. Ann's van also carries a cooler, a Coleman stove and lantern, and her boyfriend's motorcycle, which he rides ahead of the van on long trips. Other vans have kerosene lanterns, candles mounted on inner walls, and even potted plants. Charles Patton, 39, goes camping in a 1957 VW beetle that "some hippie kids" helped him convert into a plywood paneled home that sleeps two, has a portable sink and four stained-glass windows. Says John Shaw, 18, who has just completed a transcontinental trek in his converted...
...still alive. Kantrowitz has twice installed permanent heart pumps in patients, one of whom survived for 13 days. But last week's operation differed from the previous ones. Kantrowitz's new pump is not only more advanced than earlier assist mechanisms, but because of a specially developed inner coating, it is less likely to trigger the blood-clotting problems that plagued earlier implants. Therefore it has a better chance of remaining in the patient indefinitely. Hence it could offer new hope for patients with intractable congestive heart failure...
...chamber, contracted to force blood through the aorta, the external pump sucked air out of the outer tube, creating negative pressure that helped pull the blood out of the ventricle. Then, as the ventricle relaxed, the pump forced air back into the outer tube, increasing the pressure on the inner passage and forcing the blood through the aorta to the body...
...heels for periods of up to six hours while chanting. The position placed great pressure on the peroneal nerve, which winds about the head of the fibula (outer leg bone) just below the knee. After the youth agreed to do his chanting while standing, his feet, if not his inner tranquillity, gradually returned to normal...