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...balloon angioplasty, in which a tiny collapsed balloon is threaded into a blocked passage and inflated. Atherosclerotic plaque is crushed against the artery walls, widening the blood pathway. Yet another delicate operation entails tying off penile veins that fail to close during sexual arousal, thus allowing blood to leak away from the penis and inhibiting an erection. Vascular operations carry steep price tags...
...report from Kabul broadcast on last week's Soviet television program International Panorama startled some viewers. Remarked veteran correspondent Mikhail Leshchinsky: "It may be said that the People's Democratic Party is not actually the ruling party in Afghanistan." Official leak or not, that represented another public step away from the Soviet-backed regime of Afghan President Najibullah. For months the ruling P.D.P. has been riven by a bitter internecine war over the correctness of Moscow and Najibullah's policy of "national reconciliation...
...Canister Leak Forces Lab Evacuation...
...faulty valve on a pressurized gas canister caused a leak of hydrogen chloride gas--a highly corrosive substance used for etching--at Conant Laboratory Monday evening, forcing its occupants to evacuate the building...
None of the rare books harmed in Wednesday's steam pipe leak at Langdell Law Library were completely ruined, but between 100 and 200 books were damaged, a library official said yesterday...