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Useless Pumping. In transposition, placement of the heart's outflow pipes is reversed. The aorta, the great artery designed to supply oxygenated blood to the entire body, arises from the right lower chamber (ventricle) of the heart instead of from the left. As a result, it carries used blood back into circulation. The pulmonary artery, designed to carry used blood to the lungs for oxygenation, arises from the left ventricle instead of from the right; as a result, oxygen-enriched blood is pumped uselessly back and forth between lungs and heart...
...event, neither reason applies to the students under indictment. Their safety was guaranteed by the Cuban government which was anxious to exploit their trip for propaganda purposes. Also, the Cubans paid the entire cost of the junket. Far from bringing dollars to Castro, the trip involved an outflow of pesos from Cuba. By contrast, newspapermen and others whom the State Department allows to go to Cuba spend money there...
...thoughts. Two of the biggest U.S. wheat dealers dropped out of the Ottawa negotiations at week's end, said they wanted to dicker separately with the Russians. Even enthusiastic supporters of the deal conceded that much more was needed to really solve the farm-surplus and the gold-outflow problems. But a big U.S. wheat sale would have some advantages. Most of all, it would dramatically demonstrate to all the world the sorry economic state of Communism in Russia. The evidence is already visible in Leningrad and other Russian cities, where long queues form in front of bakeries...
...success is stanching the population outflow: from an average of 43,000 a year, the number of emigrants dropped by more than 50% last year, is expected to total only...
...MONEY: Since credit is abundant in the U.S. and borrowing costs are usually much lower than abroad, many foreign governments and businessmen prefer to get their loans in the U.S. In 1962, foreign borrowing in the U.S. probably totaled nearly $1 billion. Higher U.S. interest rates will discourage this outflow, but also might discourage U.S. economic growth...