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...pool of potential donors is reduced even more by the nature of transplants. The only hearts that are usable come from victims of sudden accidents. It takes only 20 to 30 minutes without circulation to damage the heart--precious time when the organ is being rushed to a specialized operating room and a suitable patient. Organ banks will only make the shortage of donors more dramatic, and hospital wards will continue to be filled by cardiac patients hoping for the extraordinarily good luck of a healthy stranger running into extraordinarily bad luck nearby...
NEWTON COLLEGE CHAPEL. David Mitchell playing the Casavant organ, assisted by violinist Edgar Edwards. Works of Bach, Dupre, Lubeck, Mozart, and Schroeder. April...
Science did indeed bring forth a Brave New World-of transistors and miniaturized electronics, antibiotics and organ transplants, high-speed computers and jet travel. But progress came at a price. It was the genius of science that also made possible such horrors as the exploding mushroom cloud over Hiroshima, the chemically ruined forests of Indochina, the threat of a shower of ICBMs, a plant increasingly littered with technology's fallout. It is this Faustian side of science, with its insatiable drive to conquer new fields, explore new territory and build bigger machines, regardless of costs or consequences that worries...
...line of wines exported to the U.S. and by running an annex, the Abbaye, that he calls his "laughing place." There he can feed 300 at a banquet, and there he enjoys tinkering with a stereo system on which he plays schmalzy love songs and a $10,000 automated organ that booms out John Philip Sousa marches. Occasionally he even sings for the customers...
...deceits are grand and complicated. He has persuaded his wife and his primary employer that the editorship of an occasionally published house organ constitutes demanding, full-time employment. His Manhattan mistress and his favorite bartender believe he is an agent for the CIA. To keep body and body together in town while financing family life in Connecticut, Howard secretly sells real estate. To him an old ruin is a "very good house for learning household skills...