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...additional duodenum is not yet connected directly to the digestive tract. It will be hooked into a loop of the small bowel in about a month if the transplant remains healthy. So far, the transplanted kidney has effectively filtered the patient's blood and made urine; the pancreatic-duodenal graft has done its work so well that she has needed no insulin since her surgery...
...strong demurrer. To them, the commitment of man to the moon is essential. Says Chris Kraft, director of NASA Flight Operations: "After the canned man and the monkey flights, we found that by adding a man, you've added a tremendous tool. We now have man in the loop-and that's made the difference." Without a man on board a spacecraft, there is no judgment aloft, no freedom of choice, no chance to take advantage of unforeseen opportunities, less chance than ever of getting past unforeseen trouble. Ranger's pictures of the moon, spectacular though they...
...Deserted Loop. By the time the storm subsided, thousands of abandoned cars and 500 city buses stood all but buried by a record 23 inches of fresh snow-whose weight was officially estimated at 24 million tons. All schools were closed, and most working people stayed home from their jobs. There were no mail or milk deliveries, and few newspapers found their way to readers. Virtually all travel in and out of the city was hampered; O'Hare International Airport was still closed early this week, the longest shutdown in its history. One newsman surveyed the deserted Loop, dubbed...
Even if birth-control pills were economical, it would be an uphill battle to train peasant women in their regular use. These days, the government is relying instead on the cheaper intrauterine plastic loop. Though it is about the simplest and most economical contraceptive available to India, the coil-shaped device has given rise to a host of rumors, one of them a report that it gives the husband an electric shock. More than 1,000,000 women have been fitted with the loops at clinics. Another 1,780,000 Indians have voluntarily undergone sterilization (for payments of less than...
Support for Abstinence. Too often the government has set unreachable goals and succumbed to the euphoria of issuing reports and statistics rather than taking action. Next year, for example, it is promising to put up 10,000 more billboards with such slogans as "Use the Loop" and to show slides at intermissions in 5,000 movie theaters. For the vast propaganda drive that it needs, however, a mere $1,330,000 has been budgeted. So uncertain is the trumpet for birth control in India that the official most responsible for selling the urgency of contraceptives-Health and Family Planning Minister...