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...following day, Joseph Ternbach, an art restorer who has worked with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, examined the shattered fragments and announced that he could mend Ubatuba in two months. New York Senator Daniel Moynihan, one of the sculpture's more vocal admirers, then called a fund-raising meeting, where the Art Dealers Association of America volunteered to underwrite the $2,000 needed for restoration. Poncet, who worked on Ubatuba over a five-year period, was less optimistic that all the Senator's men could ever put Ubatuba back together again. "Everything would be destroyed in terms...
...1930s a more humanistic T.V.A. attempted to solve the valley's problems, to harness the awesome power of the river that ran through seven states, Virginia, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Kentucky and Ohio, to mend the damage it had wrought, and to improve the lives of the valley's residents. Not only did the agency bring electricity to most of their homes fro the first time, it also cut the price of power throughout the valley by two thirds, by serving as a yardstick against which the public could judge the prices charged by private utility companies. The yardstick idea...
...Reason: if fractured bones do not knit, the affected limb may eventually have to be amputated. Brachfield, 70, a retired New York City office worker, had heard from his physician that doctors at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center were experimenting with a treatment that uses electricity to mend broken bones. He tried it. After eight weeks of electrotherapy, Brachfield has shed cast and crutches and is walking normally again...
Medical researchers have long suspected that electricity can stimulate bone growth. But it was not until 1970 that Dr. Carl Brighton and his colleagues at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine actually showed that a small direct current could help mend patients' stubborn fractures. Today several dozen hospitals in the U.S. and abroad are using electrical treatment on orthopedic patients for whom other therapies have failed. Says Dr. C. Andrew Bassett, chief of Columbia-Presbyterian's orthopedic research labs: "No question about it. In these cases, electricity can significantly speed up the healing process...
...walked into a drug store in Harvard Square, clutching a pair of broken spectacles. Ignoring the line at the counter, he held up the spectacles and said to the assistant, "I want something that will mend these, stick them back together...