Word: kept
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...SANDLIN Democrat--Texas 1st Aided by a campaign fund topping $1 million, Sandlin kept this mostly rural district with the Democrats...
...this point that TPA has proved so effective. If given within three hours of the stroke's onset, the clot buster can interrupt the brain's panicked reaction. Damage may be kept so limited that it is imperceptible. Ideally, doctors would like to inject the drug within 90 minutes of the initial attack, underscoring once again the need for stroke suspects to get to an emergency room quickly...
...scientists might be able to help fertilization take place by injecting a single sperm cell into an egg. At the time, that sounded futuristic even to a medical man like Jim. But he and Sarah took their doctor's advice, stopped trying to conceive through in vitro and kept Jim's last remaining samples frozen at the sperm bank...
...wonders of modern medicine, none has captured the public imagination as fully as organ transplantation. Since 1967, when South African surgeon Christiaan Barnard kept 55-year-old Louis Washkansky alive for 18 additional days by giving him a heart taken from a 24-year-old woman killed in an auto accident, these spectacular feats of surgical legerdemain--often involving teams of physicians toiling meticulously for as long as 48 hours--have won headline coverage and created instant heroes of patients and doctors alike...
Less risky bugs are studied in the biosafety-level 1 (BSL1), 2 and 3 labs. The nastiest microorganisms, though, are in BSL4. The entire lab is kept at negative air pressure, so if a leak somehow develops, air will flow in rather than out. Researchers generally work in pairs; if one is inadvertently exposed to a microbe, the other can take action. They wear airtight suits hooked directly to a source of clean air. There is no eating, drinking or even going to the bathroom anywhere within BSL4. On the way out, everyone takes a chemical decontamination shower inside...