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...ventricles; there may be a hole permitting all four heart chambers to communicate. The aorta may override (straddle) both right and left ventricles. The neck (infundibulum) of the right ventricle may be narrowed, retarding movement of blood to the lungs. In the most famed of all congenital defects, Pallet's tetralogy, the blue baby has an amazingly consistent pattern of four anomalies combined: overriding aorta, a hole between the ventricles, narrowing of the pulmonary valve or infundibulum (or both), and a greatly enlarged right ventricle...
Nirmal Hriday has nursed more than half its 6,363 admissions back to health. But it is still intended primarily as a place for those beyond helping. One day last week Mother Teresa watched a new arrival, who, when he felt the thin, cotton pallet that covers the iron bedsteads, clutched it fiercely and said: "Thank God! Now I can die like a human being...
...Mirrors. The first reaction of Gabrielle to the life of a nun was shock-the electric buzzer shrilled at 4:30 a.m. Another shock was the lack of privacy; each of 200 cells was semi-partitioned with thin cotton hangings, contained only a chair, a table and a straw pallet on wooden planks. It was a world without mirrors. There was sign language at meals to preserve silence. Down-hooked middle and index fingers said, "Fork, please"; two humble taps on the breast said, "Excuse me." One of the strange episodes was the shearing of the lambs: "Postulants from...
Labor Last. Everywhere, the Russians solicited advice from the visitors, carefully noted their suggestions. So acute is the shortage of labor and hand tools that in one steel mill the Americans saw women carrying heavy materials on a pallet instead of a wheelbarrow. Smith said he told them: "If you were to take the steel from a single giant crane and use it to turn out good wheelbarrows, picks and trowels and then teach people how to use them, it would help you very much...
...daughter Jenny, by now a remarkably early-blooming 13-year-old begins stalking Alexis. At novel's end, Alexis runs off with the contessa, but in effect tells Jenny to go stand in a corner for five years until she is suitably aged for his gourmet pallet. If it ever took itself any more seriously than a popping champagne cork, Aspects of Love would be silly and embarrassing. But in his neo-pagan way, Novelist Garnett, 63, is deftly amusing. He also demonstrates that if an Englishman really tries, he can be a lot more Gallic than the Gauls...