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Citing no less an authority than Hippocrates, many modern medical textbooks recommend the application of cold to control bleeding. Most doctors, however, find such advice unimpressive. One researcher has observed that bleeding is encouraged, not inhibited, if the ear lobe is chilled. Others have shown that the immersion of a cut finger in cold water delays clotting. Many have questioned whether the father of medicine really knew what he was talking about...
...first give the balky unit a chance to redeem itself by letting it repeat the task. But what if TARP itself is having an off day? Adapting an idea first proposed by the late mathematician John von Neumann, Avižienis divided TARP's brain into three independent lobes. If one lobe detects an error not subsequently confirmed by its two partners, the outvoted lobe will also be dismissed. Later, it may be given another chance. But if it continues to disagree with its partners, they will perform an electronic lobotomy on it and instruct a replacement...
...implanted four multilead electrodes in Clara's brain: two in the right temporal lobe and two in what remained of her left temporal lobe after the lobectomy...
Yesterday's program would have staggered a major symphony, but the HRO and the University Choir took it on without flinching. The Haydn Paukenmesse, the Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms, and the lovely little Schutz choral piece, Lobe den Herren, Meine Seele are all challenging pieces. It is amazing, not that the players handled them so well, but that they could handle them...
...Schutz Lobe den Herren is a marvelous piece, done by the chorus and continuo. The University Choir did a thorough job on it, obviously responding well to Ferris's direction...