Word: kins
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...past, hospital authorities would have had to negotiate with the patient's next of kin to obtain organs for transplant, and the organs might have deteriorated and become unusable before permission was obtained. There was no such delay at the Utah hospital. Informed by the patient's wife about the donor card, surgeons were able to operate on him as soon as he was pronounced legally dead.* They removed both kidneys for transplant and both eyes for cornea grafts. Within a few hours, one of each was used for transplants in other patients...
Shirley is kin to a long literary line of unworldly New World girls, starting with Daisy Miller, who have pitted their innocence against Old World ambiguities of Europe and pluckily gone under. In her own words, Shirley is "warm, generous, brave even." She is also sloppy, tactless, catty, softhearted, scatterbrained, a compulsive quoter out of context and snooper in her husband's desk drawers, gigantically absentminded, passably promiscuous, desperately lonely, guilt-ridden, polyglot, and sympathetically drawn to other people's troubles. She does the wrong thing every chance she gets, and St. Joseph (her code word for fate...
...play, and thus if nothing else, the play makes a brilliant statement of the mixed nature of men's souls. Good and evil. Playwright Peter Wiess wisely refuses to sort out clear alternatives, or declare a final winner. The script gives only vague clues as to whether Weiss feels kin to Marit's revolutionary idealism ("against Nature's silence. I use action. In the vast indifference. I invent a meaning") or to Sade's philosophically gloomy individualism...
...Lubbock or Bartlett, Texas, where the natural fluorides are too highly concentrated, as high as four and eight parts per million. (Some of these towns are now "defluoridating" down to the optimum 1 p.p.m.) Oldtimers there are found to have harder bones, with more fluorides in them, than their kin in non-fluoridated areas. At East Carolina University, Dr. Hal J. Daniel III has studied the stapes bones (in the middle ear, and essential to hearing) of residents in high-and low-fluoride areas. He finds evidence of much more deafness from stapes disease in low-fluoride areas...
...fleshy pads beneath the feet of the common house mouse and its albino kin in the laboratory are so tiny that it takes a highly imaginative researcher to suggest how they might be useful in the control of human leprosy. Dr. Charles C. Shepard had that kind of imagination. He knew that countless other investigators had failed to persuade Hansen's bacillus, the microbe that causes leprosy, to grow in lab animals-a vital step in virtually all infectious-disease research. At the National Communicable Disease Center in Atlanta, Shepard reasoned that perhaps the bacilli needed a cool environment...