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These sales might further depress already low farm prices, but Block thinks the effect would be minor. The reason: if a farmer let land lie fallow on which he could grow, say, ten bushels of wheat, the Government would give him only eight bushels (though exact ratios are not settled). Thus the total reaching the market would be reduced. Farm income would be bolstered because farmers could sell crops without the expense of growing them...
Doctors attributed the seizures to a chemical and fluid imbalance, which was related to the minor kidney failure that Clark experienced just after the artificial-heart implant. Surprisingly, the artificial heart, far from proving a liability, considerably aided doctors in correcting the kidney problem. By adjusting dials on the support equipment, the physicians were able to increase the flow of blood through the kidneys, flushing out waste products and fluid. Similar adjustments also helped clear the lungs of excess fluid. Says Peterson: "The heart has helped us diagnostically and therapeutically...
...Commission. Unfortunately, the N.R.C. has largely continued to give safety a low priority. One major result of thirty years of ignorance and mismanagement was the accident at Three Mile Island in March, 1979. Yet Ford well knows that, relative to what might happen. Three Mile Island was only a minor mishap. In one incident in 1961 that the A.E.C. did not "take seriously," an entire reactor at the Commission's Idaho test station exploded when a workman, possibly bent on murder-suicide, precipitously removed a safety rod from the core of the reactor. Were this to happen in a major...
With a few notable exceptions, such as The Boston Globe and the McNeil-Lehrer news show, only minor attention was given to the implications of the Brooks case itself. Had more people bothered to do so, it would have been clear exactly why the renewed nationwide use of the death penalty should disturb anyone with even a passing interest of justice morality, or the value of human life...
...through the worst part," said DeVries after the operation, "but there are many more hurdles to come." Clark cleared one on Saturday when, after he had been taken off the critical list, he was ordered back into surgery for minor repairs. The operation went well, but Clark still faces a high risk of blood clotting, pneumonia and especially infection, which could develop around the tubes that enter his chest; they carry the pulses of air that drive the heart. But the artificial organ does have a key advantage over one from a human donor: since the plastic device contains...