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...blood vessels are so thin-no thicker than an ordinary pencil lead -that the surgeon must peer through a microscope while joining them together.) Then, when the cerebral artery branch is undamped, additional blood spurts into the brain. Finally, the surgeon closes the hole by restoring the skin flap; usually the excised piece of bone is discarded, but patients rarely suffer any discomfort from the soft spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Bypass for the Brain | 3/13/1978 | See Source »

...necessary. Drivers of General Motors' 1978 Cadillac Seville will also be able to punch a button and find out the miles yet to go to a preset destination and the estimated arrival time. The ultimate auto will make the solid gold Cadillac look leaden. It will accommodate a pencil-size portable phone capable of reaching any number in the world in seconds, automatic braking that will take over from a panicked driver, and a mini-radar to avert collisions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Computer Society: Living: Pushbutton Power | 2/20/1978 | See Source »

...without a doubling cube (though one is in the works); Electronic Battleship, while physically impressive and wonderfully noisy, lacks an AC adapter to help preserve batteries and as a game is not quite as interesting (because ships can't be placed on diagonals) as the traditional paper-and-pencil battleship game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Games People Play: 1977 | 12/26/1977 | See Source »

James Beard, 74, Manhattan-based author-teacher: "Go through cookbooks and articles about cooking and mark down what can apply to your own kitchen. I underline things with red pencil that I want to refer back to or put slips of paper into pages I want to turn to. There is such a wealth of ideas in good cookbooks that no one can collect all of them in a lifetime...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Tips from the Toques | 12/19/1977 | See Source »

...McLaughlin can still count his blessings, as last year the hoopsters opened against Syracuse, as the Orangemen went through the season with a 26-4 slate. With 6-ft. 11-in., 235-lb. sophomore Roosevelt Bouie manning the pivot post accompanied by frontliners Louis Orr and pencil-thin Dale Shackleford, Jim Boheim's charges look to be the best in the East and are ranked seventh in the nation in "Sports Illustrated's" pre-season poll...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Crimson Basketball Scouting Report | 11/29/1977 | See Source »

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