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...putting them to death. The Coast Pet Clinic of Hermosa Beach, Calif., ministers each month to 50 new cases of cancer, primarily in cats and dogs, with a combination of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. At Tufts, plastic surgeons graft skin onto badly burned animals. Vets at special wildlife clinics monitor birds for internal bleeding by taking their blood pressure with cuffs similar to those developed for people. Pets even benefit from therapies not yet available to their upright companions. Veterinary Cancer Specialist Ann Jeglum of the University of Pennsylvania, for example, , uses promising antitumor vaccines, still in the testing stage...
...spends an estimated $15 billion a year on high-tech snooping techniques that can monitor Soviet activities in fine detail. Among them...
...transplants and grafts are performed each year on femurs, skulls and other bones, but replacing an entire knee, a procedure that has been tried on and off since the turn of the century, is especially tricky. Reason: doctors have not been able to save the sensory nerves that monitor the complicated three-dimensional movements of the knee. Explains Dr. Henry Mankin, chief of orthopedics at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston: "The nerve supply to the joint is crucial. If the nerves are lost, the mechanisms necessary to control the joint are not operative." In the past, attempted whole-knee transplants...
After taking inventory of each others' weapons, both sides will monitor the destruction of warheads, launchers and support facilities. At hundreds of locations in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, camouflage will be lifted to uncover weapons sites for American spy satellites. Similar arrangements will apply to U.S. and West European facilities. Such innovative measures are designed to head off the mistrust that undermined the SALT II treaty. Secretary of State George Shultz said last week that the new system "gives us a very comfortable feeling that in the end the provisions of the treaty can be verified and will...
...shows than watch or shoot at them, Fisher-Price has just the thing. The 57-year-old toymaker, known primarily for its reasonably priced, traditional toys, is slipping into the deluxe market with its new PXL 2000 camcorder ($225). The lightweight video camera comes with a 4.5-in. TV monitor and allows a child to record about ten minutes of black-and-white video with sound...