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...bank or even in securities if you aren't doing something to enhance the value of those securities. Dad once gave me a great piece of advice. He said: 'Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell...
...course papers begin to be late; he is overdrawn at the bank; his room starts to look like a laundry bin; overdue library books pile up in corners; study cards aren't handed in; he has given way to his suicidal urges...
With 100 miles still to go, mechanical failures and accidents had sidelined 21 starters. Most spectacular of the pile-ups occurred when Driver Don Davis lost his crankcase and piled into the retaining wall. Recklessly trying to sneak past Davis' stalled car, Rookie Driver A. J. Shepherd spun directly into the path of Jack Turner's onrushing Bardhal Special. Turner's car flipped through the air in a slow somersault, spewing parts in all directions, and crunched back onto the track. Before officials could flag them down, two other drivers slammed into the smoldering wreckage. No driver...
After his Wednesday blood cleansing (technically, a "dialysis"), Ben feels fine until about Sunday. But he passes so little urine that the poisons pile up. He drags around on Monday and Tuesday, can't wait for the day on the machine...
Because Ben A. had about one-fortieth the normal kidney function, or roughly half what is needed to maintain life, he could let the poisons pile up in his blood for a few days. Surgeon David Dillard opened an artery and a vein in Ben's left arm and implanted a plastic tube in each. He brought the ends of the tubes out over the forearm, hooked them together to form a bypass that let the blood flow through freely, to prevent clotting. When the small skin wounds healed, physicians connected the tubes to the artificial kidney. This filtered...